Lieutenant Stevraki of the former Imperial Navy was sentenced to death by the Cheka, the extraordinary commission instituted by the Soviet Government to carry on the gruesome business of 'Bolshevik justice."
Stevraki's crime is 17 years old. In 1905 he took part in the execution of Lieutenant Peter P. Schmidt, com-mander of the Russian cruiser Otcha-kov and leader of what is generally credited as the first genuine communist revolt.
On Nov. 27, 1905, Lieutenant Schmidt's cruiser was joined by nine other ships and an infantry regiment on shore, which...
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