BORAH AND SOVIET

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 9

BORAH AND SOVIET

BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS ■ -SEEKING THE FOKGEK-S . Australian Press Association. * • ,- ' (Eeceived 12th January, 8 a.m.) ■ ■WASHINGTON,. 11th; January. . Senator Borah began an independent investigation to ascertain the perpetrators of the forged documents containing allegations of bribery. The contents of the documents wore published, to-day. They disclosed that he and Senator Nortis ostensibly received a suni to.'pb-. tain American de jure-recognitionf.oC the Soviet. Senatoi' Borah also declared that the State Department should call upon the Russian Government to run the matter down. "My Government owes it. to me to clear it up," he said.

A message from Washington' published yesterday stated that a sensation had been caused by the announcement that a Senate Committee had been secretly investigating documents pretending to show that Senators Borah and Norris received 100,000 dollars each from the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, and that Senators Borah, Norris, La toilette, and Heflin also received 1,215,----000 dollars from the Mexican Government. The committee rendered a -linanimous declaration that the charges were absolutely false and the documents an uttpr forgery.