BEAUTIFUL “RED” SPY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 513, 16 November 1928, Page 13

BEAUTIFUL “RED” SPY

LYNCHED BY RUSSIAN CONSPIRATORS SOVIET’S RUTHLESS REVENGE Moscow admits in the latest Government newspapers to reach England that it has just survived another determined effort to break Bolshevist rule. The revolt was in the Kuban and Don Provinces, and was organised by the Sons of Russia movement. The beautiful Bolshevik spy, Zinaida Krylova, was sent by the ogpu (secret political police) to spy on the movement. But she was immediately recognised, despite forged letters of introduction and her vast knowledge of secret signs and countersigns. The “Izvestya” says: ‘‘The organisation decided to remove the dangerous Zinaida Krylova because she knew of the conspiracy. After she had been brutally murdered, her body was thrown into the river. It is true that the spy was lynched, but the ogpu has avenged her. Two leaders of the lynchings were sentenced to death, but the sentences were later reduced to 10 years’ penal servitude. Hundreds of people were arrested" Murder Reprisal Details of the wholesale murders committed by the ogpu since the death of Zinaida are still withheld. All that is admitted now is that a batch of 22 persons are to. be tried for life as “counter-revolutionaries.” News of the attempts to overthrow the Soviet Government, and the eventual discovery of the “conspiracy,” was at first withheld from the public. But now the “Izvestya” (September 28) publishes the bare facts. The “Sons of Russia” organisation, led by students of the Kuban agricultural institute (a Soviet college), aimed al the entire destruction of the ogpu, the overthrow of the Soviet Government, and the legal reinstatement of all the political parties that existed in the old days. Bombing Raids That this organisation was not merely a leaflet-distributing society is also admitted in the official report. It says: “Dissatisfied with mere leaflets, the organisation recently decided to work with dynamite and with bombs. Plans found show that, as a beginning, the headquarters of the Soviel Party and the railway bridges in Kuban were to be blown up.” Actually, bombs were thrown at the Krasnodar ogpu building, as well as in Moscow, railway bridges were destroyed in the Kuban Province, and Moscow was actually cut off from the Cossack province until a punitive ex pedition was despatched at the end of July. All this was kept secret, and even the soldiers were not told either their destination or their aim.