RUSSIAN MONARCHISTS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1930, Page 6

RUSSIAN MONARCHISTS

A LONDON MOVEMENT

(United Prese Association. —By Electric Telegraph. —Co pyrigL j. I

LONDON, April 13

The “Daily Herald” displays a story of an attempt to form a. White Army in London "pledged to kidnap and' hold Soviet officials as hostages and to restore some Tzar to the Russian throne. The appeal began by an advertisement in. the agony column of the “Morning Post” asking those in sympathy with, and the late of General Koutepoff, behoved to be kidnapped in Paris, to communicate with an anonymous advertisement. From the list of answers u roll of adherents would be drawn up. They art* secretly pledged by the most sacred oath known, to hold themselves at the disposal of Russian Monarchists high command, as soldiers, sailors, airmen, doctors and nurses. A reply to applicants states the proposed new organisation thus being enrolled will bear a name showing the origin is due to the abduction of Koutepoff. “This culminating abomination is an insult to law, order and the laws of hospitality.” The objects are stated to he first, the ransom, rescue or holding of hostages for Koutepoff; secondly, to place at the disposal of the Russian Monarchist command an organised party willing to serve in the extermination of the present regime in Russia and the restoring of the Romanoffs to rule.

The organisation offers to permit sympathisers to remain anonymous, and known only to the central organisation.