ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA.
AEROPLANE SHOT DOWN. PILOT'S FATHER KILLED. LONDON. July in. A Red Army officer named Korsakoff has crossed the frontier nt Stolpec, after an attempt, to escape from Russia in an aeroplane, with his father, an aged priest of the Orthodox Church. Korsakoff served with an aeronautical regiment at Voronezh, where the Ogpu (Soviet Secret Police) imprisoned his father on charges of counter-revolutionary activity. The son forged documents, procured his father's release, and flew off with him in a regimental aeroplane. He lost his way several times in the darkness. The aeroplane approached the frontier town of Minsk, 500 miles from Voronezh, with the petrol tank almost empty, and the pilot landed near the railway station, in the hope of refuelling. Ho found that petrol was unobtainable, and thereupon dashed off in the hope that the dregs of petrol would suffice to reach (lie frontier. Ogpu guards at Koydanov, warned of Ihe escape, fired on tho aeroplane, crashing it in u forest, and wounding the occu pants. The father died in a woodman's hut, but tho son succeeded in crossing tho frontier at night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20619, 18 July 1930, Page 11
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186ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20619, 18 July 1930, Page 11
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