BOMBING OUTRAGE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 241, 12 July 1928, Page 11

BOMBING OUTRAGE

ATTACK ON CHEKA OFFICES IN MOSCOW WHERE DONETZ PRISONERS CONFINED (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—Limed Service.) Berlin, July 10. Messages from Moscow suggest that a serious bomb outrage took place in Lubjanka Square, where the Bolshevik prisons .?e situated. Apparently the offices of the Tcheka were blown up. Troops immediately occupied the square, and ambulances were rushed up. The newsapapevs have been refused all information. (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. July 11, 8.15 p.m.) Moscow, July 11. The bombing of the headquarters at the hated Ogpu, the successor of the Cheka, where the Donetz prisoners ai<e confined, is reluctantly admitted Ify the Tass agency, which states that one guard was killed and two injured, but the loss of life is believed to be higher A bomb was thrown at the office where passes into the building are issued. According to a Soviet account, the terrorists were two white guards Who came from Paris, aided by a Rumanian espionage service. One, named Radkevitch, was killed while escaping. The other, who is unnamed, was arrested jn a village near Moscow. Unusual mass arrests of suspects of anti-Bol-shevism followed.

OUTRAGE ATTRIBUTED TO SECRET POLICE (RCc. July 11, 9.45 p.m.) Berlin, July 11. It is believed that the Moscdw explosion was not connected with the white guards, but was deliberately caused by secret police to create an atmosphere unfavourable to a reprieve of those convicted at the Donetz trial. FIVE PRISONERS EXECUTED OTHER SENTENCES COMMUTED Moscow, July 10. The death sentences in regard to the following, convicted of conspiracy in the Donetz affair, Matoff, Bijitanovsky, Berezovsky, Boyarshinoff, Kazarinoff, and Shadlun, were commuted to ten years’ imprisonment. The remaining five death sentences were carried out to-day.