ESTHONIAN PLOT
COMMUNISTS ON TRIAL. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON, November 7. According to advices from Reval, the trial of 159 Communists on a charge of plotting a coup d’etat will begin on November 11. Two men were discovered piercing a hole in the wall of a prison. They were arrested after an exchange of shots, and confessed that they were hired by a secret Communist organisation to rescue the prisoners. Both were court-martialled and sentenced to death.
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Southland Times, Issue 19396, 10 November 1924, Page 5
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83ESTHONIAN PLOT Southland Times, Issue 19396, 10 November 1924, Page 5
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