CAPTAIN REILLY'S DEATH.
A REMARKABLE CAREER. (BY CABLE— PRBBS ASSOCUTIOK—COFTBIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAK AITO Jf.Z. CABt* association) (Received December 18th, 7.15 p.m.) PARIS, December 18. The "Liberti" states that it was Captain Reilly who in December, 1994, discovered a. Communist plot for a revolution in France. Ho placed documentary proof in .the hands of the British Government, and Mr Baldwin comKiinicated^ith, 'M. Herriot, whereupon troops --were mobilised and tfi-j ringleaders expelled. ,
TA' previous' message stated that Captain Sidney Reilly, ' M.C., had been killed near the "village of Allekui, Russia, by G. P. U. troops (the notorious Oheka Police). He was the son ot an Irish father and Russian mother. Captain Reilly was W Russia during the height of the 7 Bolshevik terror and hcrame an official in the Soviet organisation. He was outlawed in 1918 and condemned to be shot if found in Bolshevik territory.]
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18569, 19 December 1925, Page 17
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