FLIGHT FROM RUSSIA
AEROPLANE SHOT DOWN. y ' • ■ j PILOT’S FATHER KILLED. : LONDON, July 10. A Red Army officer named Korsakoff alis crossed the frontier at Stolpac, after an attempt to escape from Russia in an aeroplane, with his father, an aged priest of the Orthodox, Church. Korsakoff served with an aeronautical regiment at Veronezh, where the Ogpu (Soviet Secret Police) imprisoned his (father on charges of counter-revolutionary activity. The son forged documents, procured his father’s release, and fleiv off with him in a regimental aeroplane. He lost his way several times in the darkness. The aeroplane approached the frontier town of Minsk, 500 miles from Voronezh, with the petrol tank almost empty, and the pilot landed near the railway station, in the hope of refuelling. He foun dthat petrol was unotninnle, and thereupon dashed off in the hope that the dregs of petrol would suffice to reach the frontier, Ogpu guards at Koydanov, warned of the escape, fired on the aeroplane causing it to crash in a forest, and wounding the occupants. The father die'd in a woodman’s hut, but the son succeeded in crossing the frontier at night.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1930, Page 7
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