WHITE ARMY.
FORMATION IN LONDON. RESTORATION OF MONARCHY. Received April 14, 12.10 p.m. LONDON, April 13. The Daily Herald displays the story of an attempt to form a White Army in London, pledged to kidnap and hold Soviet officials as hostages, and to restore some Tsar to the Russian Throne. The appeal began by an advertisement in the “agony column” in the Morning Post asking those in sympathy with the work -and fate of General Koutepoff, who is believed to have been kidnapped in Paris, to communicate with tho anonymous advertiser.
From the list of answers a roll of adherents will be drawn up. They are secretly pledged by the most sacred oath known to hold themselves at the disposal of the Russian monarchist high command. xhe objects of the organisation are stated to, be: The holding of hostages for General Koutepoff; to place at the disposal of the . Russian monarchist command an organised party willing to serve in exterminating the present regime in Russia; to restore the Romanoffs to rule. The organisation offers to permit sympathisers to remain anonymous and to be known only to the central organisation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 117, 14 April 1930, Page 7
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189WHITE ARMY. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 117, 14 April 1930, Page 7
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