FUGITIVES FROM RUSSIA.
—.—_ SHOT ON THE FRONTIER. ACTION BY THE RED GUARDS. United Press Tel. Copyright (Received August 17. 10.15 a.m.) BERLIN, August 16. Thirty-seven of the remaining inhabitants of Mosehanow ka. a village near the Polish border, who had been reduced from prosperity to poverty under the Soviet regime, decided to flee to Poland with their possessions, which they loaded nn handcarts. Red Guards discovered them crossing the frontier. As the runaways refused to return several were shot dead, but 21 reached Poland.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18409, 17 August 1931, Page 7
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