A WHITE ARMY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17234, 14 April 1930, Page 8

A WHITE ARMY

FORMATION IN LONDON SEQUEL TO KIDNAPPING (Received April 14. 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 1.3, The. Daily Herald displays a story of an attempt to form a white army in London, pledged to kidnap and bold Soviet officials as hostages and. to restore some Tsar to the Russian throne. The appeal began by an advertisement in the agony column of the Morning Tost, asking "thoso in sympathy with the work and fate of General KoutepofL who was believed to have been kidnapped in Paris, to communicate with an anonymous advertiser. From a list of answers a roll of adherents will be drawn up. They arc secretly pledged In the most sacred oath known to hold themselves at the disposal of Russian monarchist high command as soldiers, sailors, airmen, doctors, or nurses. A reply i" applicants states thai the proposed new organisation thus being enrolled will bear a name showing that its origin is due to tin- abduction of General Koutepoff. "This culminating abomination is an insult to law and order, and the laws of hospitality," it adds. The organisation's objects are stated to be: First, the ransom, rescue, or holding of hostages for General Koutepoff: secondly, to place at the disposal of the Russian monarchist command an organised parts- willing to serve in exterminating the present regime in Russia and the restoring of lite Romanoffs to rule. The organisation oilers to permit sympathisers to remain anonymous and known only fo the central organisation.