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Show RUSSIA ABOLISHING BLOODY TRIBUNALS 1 Moscow Oct. 28. Revolutionary tribunals which have been administrating adminis-trating justh e in Soviet Russia h.r the last five years are to be abolished, according to announcement l.y N. Krylenko. state prosecutor and hair-man hair-man of the .supreme tribunal ordinary ordi-nary ami unified ourt.s of justh . will bo organised Instead. The revolutionary tribunals came in to existence at tbi- time Of tho Bed Terror In 191s. They were a kind of revolutionary death-striking weapon weap-on outside court jurisdiction, with power similar to lho.se of the Cheka. They acted y special court law. Which gave them wide .scope both In ...uit proedure and 111 delivering sentence behind closed doors. |