MANY TRAGEDIES
IN THE BALTIC STATES AS RESULT OF UNION WITH SOVIET. NUMEROUS SUICIDES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON. July 31. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Helsinki correspondent says many tragedies among high-placed officials followed the decision of the Baltic States to enter the Soviet Union. M. Ulmanis, President of Latvia, died from heart failure on the day on which the decision was taken. Fourteen ex-mem-bers of the Latvian Cabinet committed suicide. Thousands of Lithuanians, including several ex-Ministers, have been arrested. A branch of the Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissariat is replacing the Latvian Foreign Office.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1940, Page 6
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