SHOT BY BOLSHEVIKS
BEAUTIFUI!, SPY’S FATE.
LONDON. August 16.
The correspondent of the “Daily Mail” at Vienna states that Francesca Schnee, a beautiful and clever spy, has been shot without trial at* Odessa by tho Bolsheviks. After the Austrian revolution she employed heir beauty and charm at Bucharest, Budapest, and Prague to raise Bums for a bogus scheme for the repatriation of war prisoners from Russia. Later she turned up at Odessa, and chartered a train for the repatriation of war prisoners. It turned out that the majority wero civilians who were attempting to smuggle themselves out in this guise, and from whom she had received money and jewels. Six civilians also were shot.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10993, 31 August 1921, Page 6
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