MOSCOW PLOT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17231, 10 April 1930, Page 12

MOSCOW PLOT

KIDNAPPING PLANNED SON OF CZAR’S HEIR j PARIS. Foil. 16. ! ll ip French policn are in\ostis^atiny ;m alleged plot by <ln* Ogpu—the Soviet j secret police—to kidnap the 12-years-old Cnnnd Itiike Vladimir, son of the Grand [ Ihfkc Gyril, heir to the throne of the JiVitnanofts They ar-j taking special precautions in | prevent him from being canned off mysteriously, as was General Koutepoff. head of the White Russians in France, I who’vanished 18 days ago. and of whom j no trace has' .since been found. j The Grand Duke Vladimir is living With his father near Rinard. rhfonnntion has reached the French police to the effect that the Ggpn agents have received orders to make a dean sweep of the While Russian refugees in Western Europe. ; Foremost on the list of persons “undi'sirable'’ to the Soviet were the missing general. the liov (Itand Duke. and General Koulepolf’s 10 year-old son, who 1 is living with his mother in the general's flat in Paris. The Grand fluke I’.oris, brother of tlm Grand Duke Cyril, who lives at a v ilia iu the Finest of Meudnn. a few miles ! | from Paris, is also said to be one of the victims marked down. j