AGENT OF THE SOVIET.
TRAVELS ON FALSE PASSPORT. IMPRISONED IK IXHCDON. 10.30 a.m.} LONDON, June 3. A representative of the Soviet revolutionary party named Moiso Ca.tzva, a Russian physician, has been sentenced at Bow Street to six months' imprisonment for having an irregular passport, and also fined £100 for making false statements. He was discovered on a Russian-bound ship in the Regent Canal dock. He said that his name was John Smith, and that he was bound from New York to Petrograd. He had £200 in his possession, and also a passport issued to a man who is now dead, and whose photograph had been pasted over by that of Catzva. A detective said that Catzva. had been using the passport to travel to and from America and Europe ac an American citizen. The Cfcec follows -tlm recent capture here of'two other Russian secret service agents.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 131, 4 June 1923, Page 5
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