SOVIET EXECUTIONS.
INFORMATION WANTED
LONDON, March 20. (Received March 21, at 12.50 p.m.) T:i the Houso of Commons Mr Chamberlain, replying to questions, said that the Government did not know whether it was true that the Soviet since 1917 had executed 1,766,1 l ( . f persons, including twonty- ; eight- bi>hops, 125 priests, 6,775 schoolmasters, B.'RfO physicians, 360,000 soldiers. 10,600 police officers, 48,500 soldier police. 12.950 land owners, 355,250 intclJeelnals, 193,350 workmen, and 815,000 peasants. The Minister said that he could not undertake to make inquiries into the subject before the Genoa Conference. Air Chamberlain admitted that the Soviet, obtained additional offices in London at a cost of £35,000. He was without any official information that the Rand outbreak was due to Bolshevik activity.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17924, 21 March 1922, Page 6
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