RUSSIAN GENERAL LOST
POSSIBILITY OF HIS MURDER kidnapping scheme reported. AGENTS OF TCHEKA SUSPECTED. By Telegraph—-Press Assn.—Copyright. Rcc. 9.45 p.m. Paris, Jan. 28. General Koutepoff, successor to the Grand Duke Nicholas as head of the Russian refugee officers here, is missing. It is believed he has been kidnapped, possibly murdered, by agents of the Tcheka. It is known that he received threatening letters. General Miller, who was promptly appointed to succeed him, in a statement said he believed General Koutepoff soon after leaving home met a motor-car and was handed a fake letter about the sickness or death of a friend. Unsuspecting, he was driven off and chloroformed. He may have been smuggled ont of France alive for trial in Russia, or he may have been thrown into' the Seine.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1930, Page 13
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