New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-06-15
MOSCOW IN REIGN OF TERROR AS
SOVIET PREPARES FOR WAR WITH
POLAND, NEWS AGENCIES DECLARE
Unconfrmed Reports of
Mass Executions and
Panic-Stricken Inhabi-
tants Fleeing the City.

London. June Is GP-Rumors Of
a new terror in Russia. with numer-
Gus executions. wholesale arrests,
drastic military preparations. an inn
pending declaration of martial law
and crowds of foreigners fleeing
from Moscow. are current in Lon
don. They emanate from Warsaw.
Riga and other centers which are
VIGOROUSLY given to circulating anti
soviet reports and whether they are
based on facts had not been sub
stantiated today from any indie
pendent reliable source.
Reports Unconfirmcd
1t is said that strict censorship
imposed on all kilograms from Rus
STA accounts for the inability to con-
firm the sensational stories. which
tell, among other things of mass
executions" in many parts of the
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republic.
including Nladiyostok, the Caspian
region, the Republics of South Rus
STA and in Moscow and Loningrad.
The G. z. L. political police) is
represented as having been given
free hand with the power of life or
death over citizens and as making
liberal use of those powers. which.
It is declared, is in accordance with
soviet law.
The population of Moscow is de
scribed as panic-stricken, with re-
servists being called to the colors
According to Warsaw despatch to
the Daily Mail. the Ukraine army
alone will be increased by many
thousands. This report says boys
and girls are being taught rifle
shooting and that the workers are
being compelled to devote their eve-
nings to military training. The des-
patch suggests these operations
are due to expected war with Po-
land"
Man Driven Insane
Among unconfirmed reports Of al
legged terror, is one from Helsng-
iors, Finland. which asserts that the
Finnish General Elvengron, one of
The twenty whose execution was an
days ago after the assassination at
Warsaw OF the Prussian envoy,
Noikoff. was actually put to death
some time ago after undergoing a
series Of tortures from which he be-
came insane.
A despatch from Riga to the
Daily Mail tells Of the shooting at
Moscow of IS former officers OF the
cars armies and says that more
than loo persons have been shot in
reprisal for the assassination of NJ.
Nokoff
This new terror" the correspond
ent adds. has more than doubled
tn number Of suicides in Moscow.
where there now are from ten to
fifteen daily. Moscow and Leningrad
do not posses enough prison ac-
"oinmodations for the additional
thousand persons arrested the past
few days, and guarded freight trains
are leaving both cities nightly. TAX
ing victims to Siberia
The correspondent quotes what he
says is an announcement of the Mos
COW newspaper Izvcstia. organ of the
federal executive committee OF the
soviets. that % prominent persons
held as hostages in Moscow will be
put to death in the event OF further
attacks on commissars.
Germany Interycncs
A spokesman for the German for
eign office. Question about a report
from Geneva that Germany had de-
cided to warn Moscow Of the adyisa-
blity of disseminating communstic
propaganda abroad. made the dec
larafion that DR.. Stresemann the
foreign minister. had made repeat
cd friendly suggestions to NJ. Tchit-
chorin. the soviet foreign commits
sar. that continuation Of commun-
istic propaganda not only constitut-
cd an insurmountahle handicap to
the soviet unions foreign relations
generally but was a harmful infu-
ence on Russo-German relations.
Berlin dispatches quoted the
spokesman as saying that DR..
Stresemann in private conversations
with NJ Tchitcherin at Berlin and
recently at Baden Baden. tried to
impress on the soviet official that it
was absolutely necessary for Russia
10 disoWn the activities Of the third
international.
Moscow. June Il Pt-Dispatches
from Warsaw and other centers re-
porting a reign OF terror in Russia
were characterized by official soviet
cicles today as "scnsationalsm and
rot
There is some tension here due
10 the continual war talk INDUCED
in by the press; otherwise things
are normal.