CHARGED AS SPY
YOUNG ENGLISHMAN
DETAINED IN SOVIET GAOL
EXPLANATION ASKED
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received September 4, 9.20 a.m.) MOSCOW; September 3. Charged with espionage, a young Englishman, Robert Valentine Bell, has been detained at Leningrad in an Ogpu gaol. The British Embassy is seeking an explanation and an expeditious hearing of the case. Bell was previously employed in a Leningrad telephone factory, but was discharged because of his British nationality. Ten officials of the factory were shot last week as wreckers and terrorists, and Bell was arrested a few hours after the executions. Eight persons accused of sabotaging vegetable supplies in Leningrad have been sentenced to death and two others to ten years' imprisonment
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 9
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117CHARGED AS SPY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 9
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