OFFICERS DISMISSED
DISCIPLINARY ACTION PURGING POLICE FORCE taltcd Pre3s Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. United Service. (Received 4th May, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 3rd May. "^hat is believed to be the last step JtT'uriSsary ie ■weed Ca& undesirables iti iht higher tranches of the Police Force is the dismissal of Inspector Ginhoven and Sergeant Jane, officers of the special political branch, following the Scotland Yard Disciplinary Board's finding them guilty of communicating information from the records of the special branch to ex-Constable Dale, dismissed for participating in the police strike of 1919. The board's inquiry was the result of a War Office> communication regarding the alleged leakage of official information to associates of the Bolsheviks.
Ginhoven is a naturalised Dutchman, twenty years in the Police service. Proficient in eight languages, he tells amazing stories of secret world-wide wartime missions. Jane had a vast knowledge of the Communist movement, and penetrated the defence of the chief conspirators in the 1926 coal dispute in order ft> frustrate Communist attempts to hamper ammunition production. Both men, whose record is excellent, worked as artisans in factories advising tho authorities when disaffection was beine fomented.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 9
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187OFFICERS DISMISSED Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 102, 4 May 1929, Page 9
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