A RASH ENVOY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18571, 22 December 1925, Page 13

A RASH ENVOY.

CAPTAIN REILLY'S FATE. (BT CABIJS PRESS ASSOCIATIOS—COKBXOHT.) (AUSTBAUAM AUI> N.Z. OABLB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, December 20. Tho "Sunday News" says in reference to Captain Jteilly, who was killed by Russian police troops, that Reilly knew that Ins description had been broadcast and that a price had been put on his head, yet he "constated recresentatives of the Tsarist Provisional Government in Paris, and egreeM to go among the Russian peasants and ascertain how they were affected towards the old regime. He cot as fa r as the village Allekuie sad was working in the fields in discuise when political police arrived. They fired and killed" him where he stood.

[Captain Sidney Reilly, M.C., was the. son of an Irish father and Russian mother. Captain Evilly was m Russia •iarinjr the height of the Bolshevik terror and became an official in the Soviet organisation. He was outlawed in 1918 anil Gondemned to be shot if found in Rslshevik territory. It was Captain Reilly who, in December, 192*, discovered the Communist plot for a revolution in France. He placed documentary proof in the hands of the British Government, and -• Mr Stanley Baldwin communicated with M. Herriot, whereupon the troops were mobilised and tho ringleaders expelled.]