SOVIET RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18347, 2 April 1925, Page 9

SOVIET RUSSIA.

FOOD DISTURBANCES. MISCHIEF IN LENINGRAD. (By carle— rr. ess association—coryr.iGHT.) (AUSTRALIA* AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) RIGA. March 31. Food disturbances in Leningrad continue. Unemployed rioters destroyed a number of bakeries. Troops have "been dispatched to the disturbed areas. A number of arrests have been made. SHOOTING OF SPIES. SHARP PROTEST TO POLAND. (AUSTRALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) MOSCOW. March 31. It is reported that two Russian Communist officers, who were sentenced to death by a Polish' Court for an attempt to blow uu a Warsaw fortress, and who were to be exchanged on the Rnsso.Polish frontier for two Poles and a priest arrested in Russia, ivere murdered in tho train as they were going to the frontier. The Soviet representative at Warsaw has been instructed to protest emphatically to Poland, demanding a strict enquiry and punishment of the murderers. The Polish version of the outrage is that one officer was killed and tho other seriously wounded. The judicial authorities in Warsaw have opened an enquiry. The outrage has caused a sensation in Poland, and is unanimously condemned. The murderer was a Polish policescrgeant, Muraszko, travelling on the same train, who, according to a Polish semi-official statement, suffered, with his family, from atrocious persecutions at the hands of Soviet authorities when living in Russia.