SOVIET EXECUTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1927, Page 3

SOVIET EXECUTIONS

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LONDON, June 10. An extraordinary communique Incheon issued at Moscow. It opens with the folowing statement:—"ln view of the open transition to (T terroristic, destructive struggle hv Monarchist and AA bite Cuardist elements, acting from abroad, on instructions and with funds from Foreign Intelligence Services, the Collegium of the State Political Department has Sentenced to death, at a session held on June Gth, twenty persons, and these sentences were carried out.”

The list of those executed includes the following:— Hx-Princc Paul Bolgorukoff, for taking leading part in Monarchist orgam- > sutions abroad, and who illegally entered Soviet territory, through lionmania. Ex-Prince Mestchersky. an ex-land-owner, and tin active worker for the Strand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch. Lyatcheff. who supplied spy information to Charnock. a member of the British Mission. Ex-Captain Koropenfto. who was on Koltchak’s service, who supplied military information to Hodgson, the British Minister. Mar.urendo, an ex-Koltchak officer, who supplied Hodgson with spy information regarding transport, and parti* cularly military transport. Flvengren, tin ex-cavalry officer, one of those who. with Captain Riley, of the British Intelligence Service, participated in an organised attempt on the Soviet Delegation at the Genoa Conference, headed by M. Tchieherin, when the Delegation passed through

Berlin. Maleviteh Malscky, tin ex-bodyguard officer of an agent of the British Intelligence Service in Persia why was sent, for espionage purposes to Russia in 1927.

LONDON. .Tune 10. The official coniinuniuqo gives the following further list of names of the Moscow executions:— Yevreinoff, an ex-Tsarist Consul serving on the staff of the Soviet State flank, who supplied Hodgson with espionage information. Skaliskv, a former noble, who supplied a British spy, llunakoff, in Finland with information on the aviation and air supplies in Russia. Popoff, an ex-officer, who returned from France to conduct counter revolutionary work under instructions by Malakoff, an ex-Tsarist ambassador. Steheglovikoff, a general’s son, spying for foreign general staffs. Susaliir, ex-C'olonel in AVrangel's Army, who organised in 1920 an ahor-_ tivo attempt against M. Krassin. ■ .Murakoff, a merchant, who financed Monrehist organisations in Russia. Nikulin, ex-Chamberlain in the Tzar’s Court, who kept lodgings, hiding terrorists from abroad. Gurevitch Solomon, who attempted the murder of Rukliarin, RykofF and Stalin.

There are also five others executed for similar charges. The news of the Russian executions was too late for the hulk of the London morning paper editions, ft is safe to predict that it will create a sensation when it becomes known. The reference to Hodgson and the other allegations affecting the British are certain to evoke an indignant repudiation.

An earlier message from Warsaw said that the demonstrations in Russia appeared to bo against Britain, rather than against Poland. It is apparent that the discovery plotting in London, followed by the murder of Voikoff is being made the pretext for a savage outburst, of which helpless prisoners are the first and easiest victims.

'MORE ARRESTS. AVARS AAV, June 1(4. Further arrests have been made at Grodno, Brest-Litov.sk, and elsewhere, including ex-officers of AA’rangk-’s and Deniken’s AA’hite Russian Armies.

DOWNING STREET VIEWS. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.’. LONDON, June 10. Downing Street shrugs its shoulders at the wild stories of yesterday’s Soviet .communique, alleging the British are plotting terrorism in Russia, and the sequel ruthless executions. The fact is that members of the British mission were so careful to avoid the most slender suspicion, that they, virtually lived recluse lives, in marked contrast to the London freedom of Rosengoltz and Kninchuk,

It is disclosed one of the charges of British espionage arose from a British missioner’s letter to a branch office at Leningrad, inquiring what were the prospects of British chemicals. The reply said they will endeavour to obtain the necessary information.

The Soviet intercepted the reply and alleged it was an attempt to obtain illicit information and published it on the front page of the “ Isvestia ” as a sample of British treachery.