RUSSIAN NIGHTMARE

Evening Star, Issue 19584, 16 June 1927, Page 5

RUSSIAN NIGHTMARE

lERBOT-STRWNEN PEOPLE ibM|/ TTIM rtiMUTIIT ipn Wwso {taMnii-By Megr^h-GopyngM LONDON, June 14. Tito ‘Daily Mail’s’ Riga corro•jondcnt says that twenty-eight additional os-Tsarist officers have boon executed at Moscow. r l%e population is panic-stricken. (Crowds of foreigners arc departing. The Soviet is refusing passports to ks own nationals. Innumerable arrests continue.

Messages from Warsaw state uhat tfce terror is being continued in Russia.

Special military measures are being token, and s Press censorship is operating, Even private lelcgrams arc not accepted.

The correspondent of the ‘ Daily Mail .’.states that the new Red terror has more than doubled the suicides in Moscow, and these are numbering Rom ton to fifteen a day.

Leningrad and Moscow, with their unsavory reputations of possessing the most, and the worst prisons in the world, have insufficient accommodation for tho additional 1.000 middle-class prisoners who have been arrested duiiwg the past few' clays. Heavily-guarded trains arc leaving for Siberia nightly from both cities with Kcd victims.—Sydney ‘ Sun.’ Cable. ELVENSREN'S EXECUTION SOVIET REPLIES TO FINLAND. LONDON, June 14. The Paris correspondent of the Central News says that an insolent apply to Finland’s protest against the execution of Elvengren was sent by tbe Soviet. The reply declares: We cannot and shall not accept any intervention in the matter oi the executions, which were made as a reprisal for the murder of M. Voikoff. Those who come into Soviet territory must know that they are no longer protected by the laws of their own country, and that the Soviet code permits tho putting to death of people without trial on the order of the police. Elvengrcn, who fought against the Soviet forces, knew perfectly well that an official state of peace did not prevent him from being a precious hostage, it is the same for all those whom the Soviet Government thinks well to imprison and condemn to death.

ODESSA PRISONERS EXECUTION ANNOUNCED. LONDON, Juno 15. The ‘ Daily Mail’s ’ Riga correspondent reports that the eleven prisoners who were sentenced to death v t Odessa' have been executed.—Sydney ‘ Sun,’ Cable. , [These men were charged with spying on the Bessarabian frontier on behalf of Rumania.] RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS IN ENGLAND BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY. LONDON, June 14. Tho political correspondent of the ‘ Daily Mail ’ states that the Russians who. have been compelled to leave Britain since tho rupture with their Government have decided to clear out with a minimum of delay. All the Russian Communists engaged in the furtherance of Moscow's revolutionary plots are believed to have been accurately traced, and tho authorities arc well satisfied with the progress of the evacuation. Tho bulk of the really bad men have already gone, and tho remainder will go within a week.—Sydney ' ‘Sun’ Cable.

KOWEROA OH TRIAL SHOOTING OF VOIKOPF ADMITTED. WA US AW, June 15. (Received Juno 16, at 9.25 a.m.) The trial of Kowerda has begun. There are twenty witnesses for the prosecution, including four exports. The witnesses for the defence arc chiefly accused’s parents and his sister. Kowerda was calm and composed. Ho admitted shooting M. Voikoff, adding; “I am not guilty of murder. I dirt not know Voikoff. I shot him because of what tho Bolsheviks have dono in Russia.”—A. and N.Z. and Sydney * Sun ’ Cable. .