SOVIET RUSSIA.
REIGN OF TERROR INTENDED. ALLEGED SPIES ARRESTED. MOSCOW, Sept. 1. The secret police have issued a statement to the effect that they arrested two groups of Lithuanian and Finnish spies who, it is alleged, attempted to institute a reign' of terror in Soyiet Russia. They will be charged with attempting to take the lives of a number of Government officials at a banquet by poisoning the food, also with trying to dynamite the largest hydroelectric power station in the country. Two of these arrested pleaded guilty to throwing .bombs into the Soviet Club at Leningrad in June. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 9
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103SOVIET RUSSIA. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 237, 3 September 1927, Page 9
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