JAPAN'S SPY HUNT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 274, 18 November 1936, Page 18

JAPAN'S SPY HUNT.

POLICE QUESTION ACTRESS. TOKYO. Japan's spy hunt is continuing, and the latest suspect is a young actress who was friendly with members of the Soviet Embassy staff. The report 011 this case made public by the Tokyo police, declares that an estrangement developed between two members of the staff when the girl transferred her favours from one to the other. While this would ordinarily indicate that the two men were interested in the girl for reasons other than those of State, it was mentioned seriously as one of the contributing reasons for her detention. The actress is Miss Tsuyako SugimOto, of the Kagetsu Theatre. She was introduced to a "Mr. Bobiliov" two years ago by Tatsuo Kuroda, interpreter for the Soviet Embassy, who was arrested with other. Japanese employees of the Embassy on espionage charges earlier this year. "Mr. Bobiliov," say the police, has been identified as a member of the Embassy's intelligence service. \ Later the actress met a "Mr. Kosakhov," also of the Soviet intelligence service. "Gradually estrangement appears to have developed between the two members of the intelligence service," says the newspaper "Yomiuri," which, according to the British United Press, adds that the actress had been summoned to police headquarters "almost every day"' for questioning.