GIRL SHOT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 June 1923, Page 11

GIRL SHOT.

A BOLSHEVIK CRIME

SY CABLE— 'PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHI [Received June 23, 12.5 p.m. LONDON, June 22. ( The Daily Mail's Berlin correspondent reports that the daughter of Gea«ral Brusiloff, Red army commander, and formerly the Czar's Commander-in-Chief, lvaa executed by Bolsheviks at Moscow for concealing sacred vessels to prevent them falling into the hands ■of the Bolsheviks. She was informed that in view of her father's services a petition for pardon would be favourably She replied: "I cannot accept pardon from the bloody hands of til© executioners of the Russian people." She was therefore shot.