SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1927, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

VOIKOFF’S FUNERAL

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MOSCOW, June J2.

Yoikoff’s coffin was accorded a reception by Ministers, who lifted it out and placed it on a gun carriage, and then walked in procession t > Red Square, where it was interred.

WARSAW REPORTS,

LONDON, Juno 12.

The “Sunday Express” M arsaiv correspondent states martial law was proclaimed at Minsk owing to the assassination of tlie local chief of the political police. A wave of terror is sweeping Russia. A mass of arrests are reported and new executions are. expected. Shooting was heard on the frontier where the Red army is demonstrating against Poland. ® The “Sunday Express" in an editorial says, for sonic time instructed opinion has forecasted a decline of the Red oligarchy. Russia is gradually adjusting herself to the outide world. The murder of Yoikoff plunged til© terrorists into a panic and the butchery of twenty political prisoners was an act of despair and the proclamation of the bankruptcy of the Red regime. Like other resolutions it is )>erishi)ig in violence.

RUSSIAN DEMANDS

BERLIN, June 12,

It is understood the Soviet, instead of the extradition of Kowerda, intends to demand that Poland shall suppress all Russian counter recoluiionary organisations and deport specified leaders.