Kovno, Aug. 22, The.police have completed their investigations concerning the recent attempt to assassinate the chief of the Lithuanian political police, Rusteika, and-have arrested more than 20 persons who will have to answer a charge of conspiring to overthrow the government by force:
All of these: men belong to the so-called "deathtbattalion"" formed* by the former Dictator Voldemaras, whose fate is still uncertain, it being merely announced that he will not be allowed to leave his house and will soon be transferred to jail.
The "press reiterates the demand that Voldemaras should either stand trial together. with the. other plotters or be declared insane and that his wife, a French woman by birth, be deported. The latter is said 10 be also involved in the present plot, being a fanatic believer in both her' husband and the prophetic values of cards.
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