RUSSIAN RED TERROR

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1927, Page 9

RUSSIAN RED TERROR

EXECUTIONS CONTINUED FIVE GERMANS ARRESTED RESENTMENT OF LEAGUE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received June 18, 3.30 p.m. Moscow, June 17. The Poles, Krypinsky and Verjbavitch, 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. 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 Tchitchefin when he was recently in France, for which it was hoped to get money from America. Berlin, June 16. That the Bolshevik propaganda abroad and the executions in Russia have created a very unfavourable impression among the representatives of the Powers at Geneva, is the parting message of the German Chancellor, Dr. Marx, to M. Tchitcherin, Russian Foreign Minister, who has gone to Moscow. The Zeitung. Ammittag reports that the Soviet secret police arrested five Germans in a Moscow hotel for alleged espionage. NAVY DEFEATS MAL-DE-MER. BRITISH SQUADRON NOT WANTED. Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. 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 Pravda that the British squadron’s presence in the Baltic constitutes a militant demonstration against the Soviet Governments. He asserts that the British are trying to discover the Soviet’s naval strength. Rear-Admiral Smirnov says that now the Soviet sailors are inured to seasickness the Red Fleet is ready to take on allcomers and will defend Kronstadt to the death.