HATED OGPU.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 July 1928, Page 7

HATED OGPU.

BOMBING RAID.

Intense Feeling Against * Moscow's Secret Police. ONE GUARD KILLED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) MOSCOW, July 11. The bombing yesterday of the headquarters of the hated Ogpu, the secret police organisation which has succeeded the Cheka, where the Donetz prisoners are confined, is reluctantly admitted by the Tass News Agency.

This says one guard was killed and two were injured, but the loss of life is believed to be greater than that. Tli# bomb was thrown into an office whcie passes into the building are issued.

According to the Soviet's account of the affair the terrorists responsible lor the bombing were two White Russian guards who came to Moscow from Paris. It is said they were aided bv the Rumanian espionage service.

One guard named Radkevitcli was killed when he was escaping. The other, whose name is not announced, was arrested at a village near Moscow. Un-u.-iiallv numerous arrests of people suspected of anti-Bolshevism have btvMi made since the explosion.

ANOTHER SPY TRIAL Giving Away Cream Separator Secrets. MAY MEAN DEATH. (United Service.J (Received 11.GO a.m.) MOSCOW, July 11 Another spy trial opened to-day. IVn men are accused of economic espionage bv communicating "specially guarcied .State secrets" about cream separators to Swedish employers. The results may mean death. GERMAN THEORY. SOVIET SUBTERFUGE. (Australian and N.Z. Presp Association.) BERLIN, July 11. It is believed in Berlin that tre Moscow explosion was not connected with the White Russian guards, but was deliberately caused by the secret police ir. order to create an atmosphere unfavourable to the reprieve of the men convicted at the Donetz trial.