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OFFICERS MURDERED. ABOUT TO BE EXCHANGED. KILLED IN A TRAIN. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION--COPYRIGHT (Received April 1, 8.55 a.m.) MOSODW, March 31. The Rosta states ; that'two Russian •Communist officers, who were sentenced to death by a Polish court for an attempt to blow up the Warsaw fortress, and who were to be exchanged on the Russo-Polish frontier for two Poles and a priest arrested in Russia, were murdered in the train as they were going to the frontier.
The Soviet representative at Warsaw has. been instructed to emphatically protest to Polan, demanding a strict enquiry and the punishment of the murderers. THE POLISH VERSION. INQUIRY COMMENCED. (Received April 1, 8.55 a.m.) WARSAW, March 31. The Polish version of the outrage is that one officer was killed and the other seriously wounded. Judicial authorities in Warsaw have opened an enquiry. The outrage has caused an sensation in Poland, and is unanimously condemned. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 April 1925, Page 5
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