Chess Player Imprisoned
Alleges He Was Tortured
Soviet Methods
[By Cable — Press Assu. — Copyright.] (Received 8, 8.40 a.m.) London, Dec. 7
The "Daily Mail’s” Riga correspondent reports that because he possessed a note book containing chess problems, which were mistaken for a secret cipher, the police arrested at Yamburg, on the Esthonian frontier, Dr. Joseph Kljas, president of the Reval Chess Club, who was invited to compete in the Leningrad tournament but disappeared after crossing the Soviet frontier five weeks ago. Friends’ investigations revealed that he was solitarily confined in a Leningrad prison, where he alleges he was tortured in order to compel a confession that he was connected with British espionage.—(Sydney “Sun” cable.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 8 December 1927, Page 6
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114Chess Player Imprisoned Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 8 December 1927, Page 6
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