ACT OF REVENGE
POLITICAL EXECUTIONS
VICTIMS OF SOVIET POLICK
(United Press ABSociation.—Copyright.) LONDON, 10th June. The Soviet executions are universally regarded as an act of revenge. Many newspapers used the word "massacre." The "Daily Telegraph's" Riga correspondent affirms that most of those executed had no connection with political activity; they were merely the victims of the Soviet political police, and were sentenced to death and shot without trial or inquiry. The "Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent saya that the unfortunate victims of Bolshevik blood lust wero arrested long ago and detained with many suspects as hostages, in accordance with Soviet practice, which does not hesitate to seize as hostages even women and children, of exiled opponents. L l
Prince Dolgorukoft", who was 65 years of age, was well known in London. He formerly was rich, but was ruined by the revolution. Yevreinoff married an Enghshwoman, and lived in England after the revolution, but eventually secured permission to return and work for the State Bank.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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162ACT OF REVENGE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 136, 13 June 1927, Page 9
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