MANY TRAGEDIES.
HIGH OFFICIALS IN LATVIA. SEQUEL TO ENTRY INTO SOVIET. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. The Helsinki correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that many tragedies among highly-placed officials followed the decision of the Baltic States to enter the Soviet Union. M. Ulmanis (President of Latvia) died' from heart failure , on the day the decision was taken. Fourteen exmembers of the Latvian Cabinet committed ..suicide. A thousand Lithuanians, including several ex-Ministers, have been arrested. A branch of the Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissariat is replacing the Latvian Foreign Office.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 252, 1 August 1940, Page 5
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