DZERZHINSKY DEAD
“BLACK POPE OF BOLSHEVISM” MOSCOW, July 21. Dzerzhinsky, the Chief of Cbukka, is dead. (Sydney “Sun” table.) LONDON, July 21. Alternatively known as the “Black Pope of Bolshevism” and “Russian Butcher,” Dzerzhinsky is estimated to have lioen responsible for tile execution of 1250 people after most horriblo torture. Tlio “Times” states: “Ilow a man, personally, fanatically honest and unbribablo could use every means by bribery, corruption, intimidation, and betrayal in tho interests of a campaign of wholesale murder, is perhaps a psychological riddle, but it explains Dzerzhinsky’s powerj.*,
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12507, 24 July 1926, Page 9
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