AMBASSADOR SHOT DEAD
GRIM TRAGEDY AT WARSAW A YOUNG MONARCHIST’S ACT THE ASSAILANT ARRESTED By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received June 8, 12.22 a.m. Warsaw, June 7. A young Russian Monarchist shot with a revolver the Soviet ambassador. The latter was sent to hospital and the assailant was arrested. The assassin was a Russian named Boris Kowceda, aged nineteen. He fired eight shots at M. Woikoff, Minister plenipotentiary of the Soviet at Warsaw, who was entering a train in order to meet M. Rosengolz, late Charge d’Affaires in London. M. Woikoff was fatally wounded.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1927, Page 7
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