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BETWEEN RUSSIA AND POLAND WARSAW, 7th June. Onlookers state that Voikoff fired blindly about the station, and this was the real cause of his death, as it prevented his friends from intervening and enabled Kowerda to empty his revolver into Voikoff's body unmolested.
The assassination is likely to cause a delicate situation between Russia and Poland, recalling Vorovsky's murder in Switzerland.
Kowerda is fortunately a Czarist refugee and not a Pole, but Poles generally sympathise with Kowerda. lie is under ago and cannot bo executed. It is expected Russia will put forward extravagant demands for compensation and punishment and will declare nonfulfilment of the. demands to be an unfriendly act.
BODY TO BE TAKEN TO MOSCOW
WARSAW, 7th June.
Voikoff's body was taken to the Soviet Legation, to be conveyed to Moscow on Thursday.
FRENCH COMMUNIST VIEW a
. ...PAIUS,..7th Jnnc..-• . Communist, newspapers describe the murder as one of tiie fruits of the Brit tish policy.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 June 1927, Page 5
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