“RED TERROR” LEADER ARRESTED
FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE CHEKA LONDON, December 8. The Moscow correspondent of The Daily Telegraph understands that Jacob Peters, the Lettish President of the Cheka during tire “Red terror” of 1919-20, has been arrested. The arrests are also rumoured of Valeri Mechlau, Vice-President of the Council of the People’s Commisars, and his brother, Ivan Mechlau, the Soviet Commissioner at the Paris Exhibition. Peters lived in London from 1908 to 1917, when he was deported to Russia. As President of the Cheka he personally carried out the “Red First of May” terror in 1919, and he was president of the commission responsible for the party purge in the Moscow region in 1934.
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Southland Times, Issue 23379, 10 December 1937, Page 5
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