KIDNAPPED RUSSIAN.
Soviet Story of Fate of Exile in France. KOUTEPOFF CHLOROFORMED ? (Received 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, July 10. "Le Journal" quotes a Eussian newspaper report that General Koutepoff, the leader of the Russian refugees in Paris, died on January 29, the date he was kidnapped, from an overdose of chloroform administered by his kidnappers, who were junior officers of the Ogpu (Soviet Secret Police). It was stated that the kidnappers were shot when they returned for bungling the business and failing to deliver Koutepoff alive.
General Koutepoff, who succeeded the late Grand Duke Nicholas as leader of the anti-Soviet refugees in France, was thought to have been kidnapped about the end of January of this year. It was known that he had received threatening letters. He was believed to have been induced to enter a motor car by means of a faked letter about a friend's illness, and was thereupon chloroformed. • His disappearance caused tense excitement in the French capital, and many_ theories ha.ve since been advanced of his fate.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 7
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