WANTED BY THE REDS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 22 December 1925, Page 2

WANTED BY THE REDS.

FATE OF CAPTAIN REILLY. By Cable—Pres* Association—Copyright, Austialian and N.Z. Cable Association, LONDON, .December 20. The “Sunday News,” in reference .to Captain Reilly, says: Captain L’eilL knew that- a description had been broaxL casted, and a price pat on his head, yet be consulted representative? of the | Czarist Provincial Government .in Paris, and agreed to go among. tlu; Russian peasants, and.. ascertain how they were affected towards the old regime. He got a, s far as the village of AUekulc, and was working in tlie fields-in disguise, when the political police an rived. . They fired and killed him where he stood. (A previous message stated that Captain Sidney Reilly, AI.C.. had been killed near the village, of Allekule, Russia, by G. P. U. troops (the'notorious Cheka Police). He was' the son .ofan, Irish father and Russian mother. Captain Reilly wa s in • Russia-during j the height of the Bolshevik, terror and' ■ became an official in the: Soviet organic---at ion. He was outlawed in ■, 1918 and I condemned to be shot: if found in -Bel- ! slicvik territory. “Liberte” states that* ' it was Captain Reilly who, in December 1924. discovered the Communist plot for revolution in France; He-’'placed"d6-cumentary proof in the hands) of i:: t'h'e‘ British Government and M. Herriot, whereupon troops: were* mobilised' and the ringleaders expelled-),;': ■■* a. -