Moscow, Feb. 5.
The report of the massacre of ex-naval officers by the "Ogpu in Russin was officially described today-as a "ridiculous invention of the Riga White Guard press."—Reuter, 500 Victims London, Feb. 5.
'A priest of the Orthodox Church chanted before an altar in Riga a requiem for the souls of the unknown number of Russian naval officers massacred in prisons and concentration camps in Russia during January.
Behind the priest was a group of the brother officers of the victims. The exact number of the officers executed is unknown, but it estimated at, betiveen 400 and 500, the majority being from noble Russian families.
Many at the service received letters giving scores of names to be mentioned at the Requiem, but the names wore not announced owing to fear that members of the local Cheka might trace the writers of the letters and through them the relatives of the former oticers.
The Russian Navy is stunned by the tragic news of the executions.
stated that several of the affeers executed had been imprison-past five years. Requiem we been held at Re ing tors, Warsaw and Paris—Reuter.
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