FORGED DOCUMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 9

FORGED DOCUMENTS.

Borah Endeavours To Ascertain

The Perpetrators.

ALLEGED BRIBERY BY RUSSIA.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) WASHINGTON. January 11.

The chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, Mr. W. E. Borah, to-day began an independent investigation to ascertain the perpetratois of the forged documents, the contents of which were published to-day. They disclose that he and Mr. S. W. Norris, a member of the Senate for Nebraska, ostensibly received a .sum ol money to obtain the de jure recognition bv America of the Soviet.

"Mr. Borah also said that the State Department should tall upon the Russian Government to discover the perpetrators. The America n Government owed it to him to clear the matter up.

The documents purported to show that Senators Borah and N orris each received £20.000 from the Soviet Ambassador to Paris. Other documents related to a chnrge that Senators Borah. Xorris. La Follette. and Henin received £243.000 from the Mexican Government. . A committee of inquiry issued a unanimous declaration to the effect that the charjccs were absolutely false, and the documents forgeries. The 'documents relative to the Mexican matter had been under investigation for more than u year, but the Russian aspect came as a complete surprise.