AGENTS OF CHEKA

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 30 January 1930, Page 5

AGENTS OF CHEKA

KOUTEPOFF DISAPPEARS TRAPPED BY FAKE LETTER l DOUBT AS TO FATE. ji United I'rvso As»'X.-lation —By Electric. Telegrupr Copyright.) PARIS, Jan. 28. Generail Ivouitepoff, successor to tilne Grand Duke Nicholas us head of the Illusion refugee officers here, is missing. It is believed he has been kidnapped. and possibly' murdered, by agents of the Cheka. It is known that he received threatening 'letters. General Miller, who was promptly appointed to succeed him, in a statement, said he believed that General Koutepoff. soon after leaving home, met a, motor-oair and was handed a fake letter about the sickness or death of a friend. He was unsuspectingly driven off and chloroformed, or may nave been smuggled out of France alive for trial in Russia, or thrown into tlie Seine.

FUNDS FOR RED PROPAGANDA. STIMULATING REVOLT. LONDON, Jan. 28. “The Times” correspondent at Riga says the Ctentrai Council of the Communist Inter antionai urgently instructed the executive of its bureau to organise' a new international fund to stimulate tlie revolutionary movement, particularly in Australiai, India, South Africa, Latin America and the Philips pines, to induce the workers of the mother countries to give the maximum support to strikes and revolutionary outbreaks in the colonies. Internac tionail propaganda committees will be formed outside Russia, with Soviet delegates playing a decisive ro'le in their management. Soviet trade unions must take over the leadership of the international working class in the_ impending struggles and take the initiative in providing finances for the organisation committees.