MURDERED IN TRAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 April 1925, Page 5

MURDERED IN TRAIN.

RUSSIAN OFFICERS.

SOVIET DEMANDS ENQUIRY. t’ress Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh (Received Wednesday, 8.55 a.m.) MOSCOW, Tuesday. The Rosta stales that two Russian Communist officers who were sentenced to death by the Relish Court for an attempt to blow up the Warsaw fortress, and who were to be exchanged'on the Russo-Polish frontier for two Poles and priests arrested in Russia, were murdered in the train as they were going to the frontier.

The Soviet representative at Warsaw has been instructed to emphatically 7 protest to Poland, demanding a, strict enquiry, and the punishment of the murderers.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. THE POLISH VERSION. (Received Wednesday 7 , 8.55 a.m.) WARSAW, Tuesday 7 .

The Polish version of the outrage is that one officer was killed and the other seriously wounded. The judicial authorities in Warsaw have opened an enquiry. The outrage has caused a sensation in Poland, and is unanimously 7 condemned. —Aits, and N.Z. Cable Assn. POLICE SERGEANT MURDERER. (Received Wednesday. 33.40 a.m.) WA RSA W, Tuesday 7 . The murderer was a Polish police sergeant named Muraszko, travelling on the same train, who, according to a Polish semi-official statement, suffered with his family from atrocious persecutions at the hands of the Soviet authorities when living in Russia.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.