MASS MURDER
ALLEGED CONFESSION BY SPANISH WOMEN NINE MEMBERS OF FEMALE CHEKA. FIVE THOUSAND VICTIMS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 13. The British United Press Madrid correspondent says nine women have been arrested and charged with five thousand murders. They are alleged to have confessed to the formation of a female Cheka which daily sentenced thirty to death. They controlled a. number of militiamen, with special ears for the transportation of prisoners to the ground where firing squads executed them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1939, Page 6
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85MASS MURDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1939, Page 6
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