RUSSIAN UNREST

Southland Times, Issue 20208, 20 June 1927, Page 7

RUSSIAN UNREST

LATE EXECUTIONS. UNFAVOURABLE IMPRESSION ABROAD. Berlin, June 16. That Bolshevik propaganda abroad and executions in Russia have created a very unfavourable impression among powers in Vienna is Dr. Marx’s parting message to M. Tchitcherin, who Hjs gone to Moscow. Helsingfors, June 16. The Government is dissatisfied with the Soviet reasons for the execution of Elvengren and is demanding amplification.—A. and N.Z. .FIVE GERMANS ARRESTED. Berlin, June 17. The Zeitung am Mittag reports that Soviet secret police arrested five Germans in a Moscow hotel for alleged espionage.— A. and N.Z. TWO POLES SHOT. Moscow, Jyne 17. Two Poles, Krypinsky and Verjb Jovitch, convicted on a charge of entering the Ukraine in 1926 for the purpose of murdering members of the Ukraine Cabinet were sentenced to death and shot.—A. and N. M. TCHITCHERIN ENDANGERED. AN ALLEGED CONFESSION. Moscow, June 17. Among the latest crop of remarkable official documents is an allegation that Elvengren confessed that he endeavoured to obtain Henry Ford's support of a plot to kill M. Tchitcherin when recently in France, for which it was hoped to get money from America.—A. and N.Z. BRITISH NAVY IN BALTIC. ADMIRAL SMIRNOV’S INTENTION. London, June 18. The Daily Mail’s Riga correspondent states that the Soviet Rear-Admiral, Smirnov, attached to the Baltic Red Fleet, informed the newspaper Pravada that the British squadron’s presence in the Baltic constitutes a militant demonstration against the Soviet Government. He asserts the British are trying to discover the Soviet’s naval strength. Admiral Smirnov says now that the Soviet sailors are inured to seasickness and the Red Fleet is ready to take on allcomers and will defend Kronstadt to the death.—Sun Cable.