The Archive · 1940

Russian Publisher

id Threatened "Mysterious Phone Call" to Mr, V. A. Chiliken Mr V. A. Chiliken, publisher of th rissian Daily News in Avenue Foch was reported by a Russian source last night to have receive a mysterious threatening telephone call yesterday' at about 7 p.m. while he was at his home, also in Avenue Foch.

The telephone caller, said to be u foreigner asked him whether or not he knew that a Russian detective had been murdered in the French Concession. When he answered in the affirmative the caller told him that he might suffer the same fate.

It was believed by the informant, however, that the threat was not made actually in connection with that murder. Mr. Chiliken was also reported to have made a report to the Settlement police but there was nothing in the book at the Central Station late last night.

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