SOVIET SPY LYNCHED

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1928, Page 9

SOVIET SPY LYNCHED

OGPU TAKES ITS REVENGE. . London, Oct. 4. The Moscow Government admits that is has just survived another determined effort to break up Bolshevik rule by a revolt in the Kuban and Don Provinces A beautiful Bolshevik spy, Zinaida Krylova, who was sent out to watch the Sons of Russia organisation, was detected and lynched. The wholesale murders admitted by members of the Ogpu (Soviet secret police) in revenge for Krylova’s death have been withheld, but it is admitted that 22 persons will be tried for their lives as counter-revolu-tionaries. Zinaida Krylova was immediately detected, despite her forged letters of introduction and her vast knowledge of secret signs and countersigns. The Izvestia, the official Soviet organ, says: The organisation decided to remove Krylova, because she was aware of the conspiracy. She was brutally murdered and her body was thrown into tlio river. It is true that she was lynched, but the Ogpu avenged her. The two leaders in the lynching were sentenced to death, but the sentences were commuted to 10 years’ penal servitude. Hundreds of arrests were made. The Sons of Russia, led by students of the Kuban Agricultural Institute, aimed at the overthrow of the Soviet to reinstate the old-time political parties. The organisation became dissatisfied with mere leaflets and it, decided on bombs and dynamite. _ The •Soviet headquarters and the Kuban bridges were to be blown up. Actually bombs were thrown at the Krasnoda office building, and were also used in Moscow. Railway bridges in Kuban were destroyed, and Moscow was cut off from the Cossack Province until a punitive expedition was despatched.