Rome, Feb, 17.
"Bolshevism instituted in Russian countryside is the most tergible slavery ever known to human-
This statement was made here today by M. Feodor Butenko, former Soviet Charge d'Affaires in Bucharest, who was declared missing for some time before he appeared in Italy yesterday.
"I am happy to be alive and under the protection of the Italian authorities," M, Butenko added, speaking in perfect French, but looking deathly pale, He confirmed that his wife and daughter were still in Leningrad.
M. Butenko refused to state how he came here from Bucharest, but well-informed circles understand he crossed the Yugoslavian border at Postumia on February 11 with a false passport and immediately left for Milan where he reported to the police who then summoned from Bucharest a member of the Italian Legation there who knows M. Butenko and who identified him.
According lo an unconfirmed report, -Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, received him yesterday morning.
In a long article published in the "Giornale d'Italia" to-day, M.
Butenko eulogized Tsarist Russia ind attacked the Soviet regime.—Havas
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