Twelve Jews have been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment each in Proskurov charged with the illegal purchase of meat of cattle illegally slaughtered by peasants. At the trial of the Jews the district attorney declared that the accused were professional meat speculators who had instigated the peasants to kill their cattle by promising them higher prices for the meat than the Soviet government pays.
The Jews, in their own defence, claimed that they had never speculated but had merely complied with an appeal from their relatives to buy and mail to them meat, butter and fats which is entirely unobtainable in the larger cities.
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