Three Jews, Rubinstein, Dubrowsky and Stereson, have been sentenced to death together with seven other members of the Ukrainian Bread Trust, after a ten days’ trial, having been found guilty of systematic diversion of bread supplies intended for workers in the Dneprostroy and other industries, and selling them to private places. 58 others who stood their trial together with these ten in the law court of the Ukrainian town of Dniepropetrovsk, formerly known as Ekaterinoslav, on the charge of complicity, have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The condemned men were accused among other things of having given receipts to kulaks (big peasants) for fictitious grain delivories, and afterwards sharing with them the profits they made on the illegal sale of these supplies over the whole period of the past year.
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