SWEEPING THE SOVIET
MTJEDER OF, yOIKOFF,
PRECIPITATES PANIC
(A.P.A. and "Sun.")
LONDON, 12th June,
The Warsaw correspondent of the "Sunday Express" states that martial law has lieen proclaimed at Minsk, owing to the assassination of the local chief of political police.
A wave of terror is sweeping Russia. Mass arrests aTe reported and new executions are expected.
Shooting was heard on the frontier, where the Bed army is demonstrating against Poland.
The "Sunday Express" in an editorial says: "For some time instructed opinion has forecasted the decline of the Bed Oligarchy. Euasian is gradually adjusting herself to the outside world. The murder of Yoikoff has plunged the terrorists into a panic. The butchery of twenty political prisoners was an act of despair and a proclamation of bankruptcy. The Bed regime, like the other revolutions, is perishing in violence."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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