SOVIET DISSATISFIED.

Grey River Argus, 18 June 1927, Page 5

SOVIET DISSATISFIED.

WITH POLAND'S ACTION.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received June 17 at 10 p.m.) MOSCOW, June 16.

The newspaper “Isvestia,” as expected, considers that Kowerda’s sentence is inadequate, and says it will provoke just indignation in Russia, whose demands for participation in the trial, and for a severe verdict, have been rejected. The Soviet, it adds, is awaiting the Polish Government’s attitude as regards the third demand, viz., the liquidation of White Guard and terrorist organisations, before concluding how far the Polish Government’s declarations of good-neighbour-ship conform to facts. TRIAL OF ASSASSIN. KOWERDA’S HISTORY. WARSAW, June 16. “Russia, poor Russia,” was Kowerda’s only remark when he shot Volkoff, according to M. Rosengoltz’s evidence. Kowerda’s father gave evidence that his son was forcibly drafted into the Soviet army against Poland. His son was of a quiet disposition, but was unnerved by his sufferings during the

Red Terror in 1917 th 1920. Kowerda, in a statement, said that ho suffered dreadfully in his boyhood He hoped that Russia would again be happy. He was sorry that his action had worried Poland. ALLEGED BRITISH SPY. MOSCOW, June 16. A naval military tribunal sentenced Klcpikoff, former commander of a ship in the Baltic Fleet, to death, 011 a charge of espionage, for England. Hi. wife was sentenced to, three years imprisonment.