DETAILS OF THE OUTRAGE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14860, 6 September 1918, Page 5

DETAILS OF THE OUTRAGE.

BRITISH OFFICIALS ARRESTED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Sept. 6, 1.55 a.m.) London, Sept. 5. The Foreign Office announces that ! during the Bolsheviki attack on the j Embassy at Petrograd on Saturday, ! Captain Crowie, the British Attache, I opposed the entrance of the Bolsheviki, jand killed three with "his own hand, and ! The corpse was mutilated. An Eng- ! then was himself killed. ~ j lish clergyman was forbidden to say 'prayers over the body. The Embassy j ! papers were destroyed. j j A similar attack was expected at the I | French Embassy, where defences were I prepared. .-.-,'

GABLE NEWS.

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The Government's note adds:—"You have already been informed through, Litvinoflt that the British Govez-nmenfc are prepared to do everything to secure the immediate return of the British, Russian, and French representatives to their respective' countries. We now I learn that a decree of August 29th ordered the arrest of all British and French subjects between eighteen and forty, and that British officials have been arrested on trumped up chargesof conspiring against the Soviet Go-' vernroent."