BRITISH WARSHIPS.
IN THE BALTIC. Soviet Apprehensive. (Sun Cable.) LONDON, June 18. The Daily Mail’s Riga correspondent says:—The Soviet Rear-Admiral Smirnov, attached to the Baltic Red Fleet, has informed the newspaper Pravada that a British Squadron is at present in the Baltic Sea, and that this constitutes a militant demonstration against the Soviet Government. The Admiral asserts the British are trying to discover the Soviet’s naval strength. Admiral Smirnov says:—Now that the Soviet sailors are inured to sea sickness, the Red Flag is ready to take on all comers, and will defend Kron stadt to the death. TWO POLES EXECUTED. MOSCOW, June 17. v Two Poles, Krypinsky and Verjbovitch, committed on a charge of entering the Ukraine in 1926 for the purpose of murdering members of the Ukraine Cabinet, were sentenced to death and shot.
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Grey River Argus, 20 June 1927, Page 5
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