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...prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...
Colonel Rusteika, head of the Lithuanian secret political police, lay on his bed at Kovno last week snoring soundly. Two young students burst into his bedroom, shot him in the head, stabbed him in the body. Colonel Rusteika is corporeally tough. He did not die. The students were captured. Their confession led straight to the most interesting man in Lithuania, Augustine Waldemaras, Prime Minister-Dictator of Lithuania from...
...Kovno, Lithuania, a gentleman disappeared. The local soviet announced a reward "for the finding of the corpse of Judge Dmitri Petrovitch, believed to have been drowned in the Neva. Height, six feet; hair, black; eyes, brown; special identification: he stutters...
...State Theatre of Kovno last week drove the limousine of Professor Augustine Valdemaras, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, and, since 1926, Dictator. The limousine stopped in the forecourt of the theatre, an enclosed garden. Out stepped the curt, bristly-pompadoured Professor-Prime Minister, with his wife, his aide-de-camp, his small grandnephew...
Trembling witnesses went pale and stuttered with fright as they testified at Kovno last week against the dread onetime Chief of Lithuania's Political Police, Herr Jacob Badchis, now on trial for acts of gross brutality, extortion and malfeasance in office...