REDS' NAVAL VICTIMS
COUNTRY HOUSE HORROR HELSINGFORS, Feb. 16. Fuller particulars of the massshootings of officers of the former Russian Navy are coming across the Soviet frontier. It was close to this frontier that one group of these unfortunate naval officers was shot by agents of the Cheka (the terrorist police) in a forest. The execution was carried out by a special detachment under a Cheka official named Shuvailoff. On the preceding day the officers were taken by car to one Janson, chief of the Special Department of the Cheka, and questioned by him. He then gave orders for them to be shot immediately, and the sentence was carried out under the supervision of the executioner, a Finnish Communist named Heiskanen. The bodies of the murdered men were taken to an empty country house near the frontier, and were there burned next day.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17234, 14 April 1930, Page 9
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143REDS' NAVAL VICTIMS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17234, 14 April 1930, Page 9
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