CRIME LINKED WITH PEKI AND ARCOS RAIDS
MOSCOW, 7th .lime. Litvinoft has handed to M. Patek, Polish Minister, a strong Note protesting against Voikoff'j? assassination, which he describes as an unprecedented criminal act bound up in a whole series of acts aiming at the destruction of the Soviet's diplomatic representation abroad. The Note more particularly refers to the Pekin raid, the Arcos search, and Britain's provocative diplomatic rupture, which the Note stales loosened, activity of terrorist groups, who in their blind hatred against the working class are seizing the weapon of political murderers.
Litvinoft' accuses Poland of not taking necessary measures against tho criminal activities of counter-revolutionary terrorist, organisations.. He recalls that the Soviet recently warned Poland of provocation and criminal acts resulting therefrom. The Note concludes: "Poland cannot repudiate responsibility and tho Soviet reserves tho right to revert to the, matter when she has received exhaustive details of the crime."
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 June 1927, Page 5
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