The Archive · 1925

Murder of Polish Communists

Moscow, Mar. 31.

'The Rosta Agency states that two Polish Communist officers, sent-fenced to death by a Polish' court for an attempt to blow up a Warsaw fortress, who were to be exchanged at' the Russian-Polish frontier for two Poles and a priest who were arrested in Russia, were murdered to-day in a train as they were being taken to the front 'The Soviet representative at Warsaw has been instructed emphatically to lodge a protest with the Polish Government, demanding 4 stric' inquiry and punishment of the murderers.

The murderer was a Polish police sergeant, named Muraszko, travelling in the same train, who, accordment, suffered with his fai "atrocious persecutions hands of the Soviet when living in Russi The Polish version of the frontier outrage is that one officer has been killed, and the other serious wounded.

The judicial wuthoritiex have evened an in qui The outrage has caused " sensa-tien throughout Poland, and is un-

Apr. 1 'A Polish priest, M. Ussas, ha' been arrested. He was to have: been exchanged at the Russo-Polish frontier, together with two other} Poles arrested in Russia, for two Polish Communist officers sentence ed te death by a Polish Coury fo-fan attempt to blow up a Warsaw fortress.

The re-arrest follows the murder: of the two Polish Communists in x train as they were being taken to the frontier.

The Rosta Agency states that the Foreign Commissariat has handed fa note to the Polish Mission declaring that the exequatur of the Polish Consul ju Minsk is annulled, and hoping that he will be recalled immediately for harbouring M. Ussas for two daya—Reuter.

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