SPIES SHOT.
" '' BY ORDER OF SOVIET. (BY CABLK-PRESS ASSOCIATIOK—COPTBIGHT,) (AUSTRALIA* AKB N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIOK.) LONDON, March 5. The Riga correspondent of "The Times" states that the Soviet shot 13 of the Esthonian spies tried at Leningrad. [At the conclusion of the trial at Leningrad of IS Esthonians, charged with espionage, 15 were sentenced to death. The Public Prosecutor, in the course of a 10 hours' speech, said that the Intelligence Departments of Great Britain and the Baltic States, had been co-ordinated. Consequently, all espionage information had reached Great Britain.]
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18634, 8 March 1926, Page 9
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89SPIES SHOT. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18634, 8 March 1926, Page 9
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