PLOTTING IN RUSSIA.
OFFICERS ON TRIAL. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) MOSCOW, September 7. The trial lias opened at Sevastopol of 27 oillccrs, who were formerly members of General Wrangcl’s army. The ofticers are charged with attempting to organise a counter-revolu-tion and with carrying on propaganda in the Red Army. It is alleged that ten of the accused men, commanded by one Dctilot, seized the steamer Urisli when she was proceeding to Odessa in 1925, and compelled the captain to land them at Verga. There they are said to have joined some foreign anti-Bolsheviks and others, and to have adopted methods of' terrorism. . The allegation Is that the accused blew up part of Sevastopol. The newspaper Izveslia says the prisoners include Itenriehson and the members of a provisional Cabinet which had been organised lo constitute a new Government after the Soviet had been overthrown.
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16896, 9 September 1926, Page 7
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