FATAL MISTAKE
FLUSTERED WATCHMAN KILLS NOTABLE RUSSIAN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copvrleht MOSCOW, May 16. An 18-year-old watchman, forgetting to demand the password when a squad of Red Army soldiers entered a flying field, where a crack parachutist and inventor, Commander Pavlov Silvansky, was about to perform, lost his head and opened Are after the soldiers passed, killing instantly Commander Silvansky, and wounding the entire squad. The watchman will be charged with the wanton ‘killing of Commander Silvansky, and the flying field officials will be charged with complicity.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 14
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89FATAL MISTAKE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 14
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