CHESS PLAYER TORTURED.
WIONAGE SUSPECTED.
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LONDON, December 7. Tbeßigßi correspondent of the "Daily 1W1" reports that, because he possess'•i a note-book, containing chess prob- **», which were mistaken for a secret Pjw'i the police arrested at YamN. on the Esthonian frontier. Dr. S*W Kljas, president of the Reval **. Club, who was invited to' com- £* in the Leningrad tournament, ?!ffl»Ppeared after crossing the ■*W frontier five weeks ago. .Iwestigations by friends revealed *t he was in solitary confinement VJ*nhigrad prison where, he JJ*»i M was tortured in order to 3*l» confession that he was conrm with British espionage.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19179, 9 December 1927, Page 9
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