TROUBLED RUSSIA
MORE EXECUTIONS REPORTED. (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) Berlin, June 16. Thert have been nine more executions of alleged members of Monarchist organisations at Odessa and Kharkov. The Tass agency denies that Chaliapine has been deprived of the rank of the people’s artist. —A. and N.Z. KOWERDA ON TRLAL. SHOOTING OF VOIKOFF ADMITTED. Warsaw, June 15. The trial of Kowerda has begun. There are twenty witnesses for the prosecution, including four experts. The witnesses for the defence are chiefly accused’s parents and his sister. Kowerda was calm and composed. He admitted shooting M. Voikoff, adding: ‘T am not guilty of murder. I did not know Voikoff. I shot him because of what the ’Bolsheviks have done in Russia.”—A. and N.Z. and Sun Cable. KOWERDA SENTENCED. Warsaw, June 15. Kowerda was sentenced to penal servitude for life, with a recommedation that the sentence should be commuted to fifteen years’ penal servitude.—A. and N.Z. FIRING ON POLISH FRONTIER. SOVIET TROOPS SHOOT AT AEROPLANE. (Rec. 3.15 p.m.) London, June 16. The Exchange Agency’s Berlin correspondent reports that Soviet troops fired on an aeroplane passing the frontier, after which Russian and Polish frontier guards exchanged shots.—Sun Cable.
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Southland Times, Issue 20206, 17 June 1927, Page 7
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