ESPIONAGE CANARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1927, Page 9

ESPIONAGE CANARD.

Downing St. Shrugs Shoulders at Wild Stories. A LIE EXPOSED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, June 10. Downing Street shrugs its shoulders at the wild stories of yesterday's Soviet communique allelgilng British plotting, terrorism in Russia and the sequel in ruthless executions. The fact is that members of' the British Mission were so careful to avoid most of the slender suspicion that they virtually lived recluse lives. In marked contrast was the London freedom of Rosengoltz and Khinchuk. It is disclosed that one of the charges of British espionage arose from a British missioner's letter to a branch office in Leningrad inquiring what were the market prospects of British chemicals. The reply said: I will endeavour to obtain the necessary information. The Soviet intercepted the reply, alleged that it was an attempt to obtain illicit information and published it in the front page of the newspaper ''Isvestia" as a sample of British treachery.