INTRIGUE DENIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 7

INTRIGUE DENIED.

Vickers Director's Activities in

Russia.

SOVIET SUGGESTION.

(Received 2 p.m.)

LONDON, April 10.

According to a White Paper, Mr. Allen Monkhouse, the New Zealander, believes it will be suggested that Mr. C. T. Eichards, now in England, who is the director of Metropolitan Vickers in general charge of Eussian business, waa working in conjunction with an international group to hinder industrial developments in Eussia.

The Public Prosecutor, M. Vishinsky, on several occasions has suggested that Mr. is in the British Secret Service.

Mr. Richards has issued a denial of the Ogpu's allegations.

"The implication that I or any of my colleagues of Metropolitan Vickers are working against the interests of the Soviet, either by sabotage or. any other means, is ho less fantastic than the suggestion'' that I am in the British Secret Service," he declares. "I deny both completely." /

Counsel for the accused Britons are devoting hours each day to their preparation of the engineers' defence, under the disability that they are unaware of the actual indictment,, which will only be disclosed when the Court opens.