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HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS. U AMAZING CHARGES MADE. (Received Juno lp, 12.55 a.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. MOSCOW, June 9. Demonstrations of protest against the VctikofT murder took place' in all the laiige cities of Russia yesterday. Demonstrtitors officially stated to have numb&red several hundred thousands marched paist the Foreign Affairs Office in Mosccav from 3 p.m. until late last night. At all the demonstrations resolutions wore passed laying emphasis on the alleged close connection between the marder and Britain's anti-Soviet policy, also demanding a dissolution of the White Guard organisations alleged to exist in Poland An amazing document has been issued which accuses Britain and other foreign Powers of persistent terrorism and attacks on the Soviet. It says:— " It is very evident thaFwhile Britain is rapidly preparing for war against the. Soviet she is at the same time striving to prevent a continuance of the peaceful labours of the Russion People's Government. " We call on the toiling masses to protact their country's industries against foreign spies, incendiaries and murderers. With your support we will clear out our enemies." The supposed facts quoted in the statement go back to 1925. It is alleged that the spy Steinberg, who was shot on the frontier, was really a captain in the British Air Force who had personal instructions from Mr. Winston Churchill. Another charge mentions Mr. White, of the British (Consulate Moscow in .connection with the instigation of the Kremlin explosions. There is a long list of suggestions that other bomb outrages were of British or French origin. It is also alleged that Finnish and Estonian incendiarists were agents of Britain. STRESEMANN'S ADVICE. CHAT WITH TCHITCHERIN. FRENCH VIEW OF THE CRIME. (Received June 9. G p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, June 9. A message from Berlin says importance * is attached to a three hours' conversation which took place there between the German Foreign Minister, ilerr Stresemann, and the Russian Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Tchiteherin. It is believed that Herr Stresemann impressed upon Mr. Tchiteherin the importance of restraining the excitement about the Voikoft murder. Reports from Paris say the opinion there is much the same as in Britain. 1 Whilp the Warsaw crime is severely condemned, the attempts of the Soviet Government to make political capital out of it are even more strongly deprecated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19659, 10 June 1927, Page 11
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