PAUL FREEMAN KILLED.
END OF A MYSTERY MAN.
LONDON, Aug. 4. Information received in London confirms the report that Paul Freeman was killed in the Riga-Moscow train accidenut. The cause of the accident'is unknown. The party was travelling in an aero-train, a new invention consisting of a light carriage with a tractor propeller in front. The inventor was among the killed. A couple of years or so ago, Paul Freeman was refused permission to land froma Vancouver steamer in either Australia or New Zealand. He travelled to and fro on the steamer for several months, and then suddenly vanished. It was under! stood that he had gone either to Europe or America. A few months ago he appeared in Australia, as mysteriously as he had disappeared, as an emissary of the Soviet Government on a mission to all Russians. He departed as secretly as he had arrived, and then was noticed a general erodus of Russians out of Australia. It was not till then that the fact of Freeman having been in Australia became known, and it was then learned that he had been oh a mission of recall to Russians in Australia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18249, 6 August 1921, Page 9
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