OUTLAW GENERAL
ESCAPE AFTER BEING THRICE CONDEMNED. Six foot three, haggard, gaunt, and with flaming eyes; such is General Vas-silkoffi-ky, who lias escaped from the Bolsheviks and arrived Helsiiigfora. He was 'an officer of the Lifeguard Cossacks and Commander-in-Chief at Petrograd from July 20 to August 27, 1917. _ After tho Bolshevist revolution he lived disguised aa a peasant, labourer, or soldier, always carrying on cspionago against the Bolsheviks. Often arrested under aliases, he was thrice condemned to bp shot and escaped. Onco he travelled in the same carriage., as the agents of tho Special Commission to Tight the Counter-Revolution who were going to arrest him. Formally outlawed on July i, 1918, ho hns now escaped on foot, nleoping four nights in the woods to nvoid detection.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 52, 25 November 1919, Page 5
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126OUTLAW GENERAL Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 52, 25 November 1919, Page 5
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