MASSACRE OF SOLDIERS
EXECUTION BY SOVIET POLICE. By Telegraph—Prees Assn..—Copyright. - Riga, Feb. 3. The greatest-massacre of officers since the early days! of the Soviet, revolution is reported; "The secret police carried out a mass execution of all the remaining ex-naval officers, numbering to several hundreds, 1 1 Who had not entered the Soviet service although they remained in Russia. The victims were shot at various prison camps where they had been confined since last year. Their relatives appealed to co-religion-ists at Riga , to hold requiem masses which were . not. permitted in Russia. Accordingly i .the Orthodox Russian Chureh is organising a great memorial service fo-monroyir,.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1930, Page 13
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