RUSSIA: Bombs & Executions

Clang! Clang!—an ambulance rushed through Moscow, turned with a lurch into the Boulevard Lubianka, and pulled up before the most dread address in Russia, No. 2.

Leaping from their seats two white clad internes picked up a stretcher and rushed into the Bureau of the Union State Political Department, notorious as the "Cheka" or O. G. P. U., the dread police-spy service of the Soviet Union.

Two men Had thrown bombs. Now a wall of the O. G. P. U. building gaped with a great jagged hole. As the white clad stretcher bearers rushed...

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