RUSSIA AND POLAND

Evening Star, Issue 19658, 10 September 1927, Page 4

RUSSIA AND POLAND

JliE LEGATION SHOOTING COOLNESS IN RELATIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 9. (Received September 10, at 1.30 a.m.) The Riga correspondent of ‘The Times ’ says that- the legation shooting has resulted in renewed coolness in Russo-Poland relations. The Soviet persists in distorting it into an attack on tho legationThe newspaper ‘ Izvcstia ’ bitterly condemns tho Polish Press and public for refusing to accept tho Russian version. According to the Soviet, diplomats abroad aro unable to carry on, while international bandits are allowed a free range, It declares that Trajkovitch was slain both by a Soviet official and by British diehard Ministers.

[A tragic affair occurred at the Russian _ Consulate on September 2. An applicant was refused a passport vise. Ho drew a knife and wounded an official named Schleffer. He also slashed a portrait of Lenin. Thereupon another official named Gnsew shot the assailant dead. The Polish authorities say they are not concerned, as the incident on curred between Russians on Soviet territory. However, the Soviet authorities allege that tho victim, whose name was Trajkovitch, was a Polo, and was trying to enter Russia. The newspapers state that the shooting of Trajkovitch was unnecessary, as the doors were closed, and he could not have escaped. There were five bullets in .the body. Trajkovitch -escaped from Russia in 1921. Two of his brothers were officers in General Denikin’s army, and were executed.]