ARRESTED AS SPY
ITALIAN IN RUSSIA
RELEASE DEMANDED
(Received September 10, 1.10 p.m.)
ROME, September 9.
The Italian Government has instruct" ed its Ambassador at Moscow to demand the release of Luigi Patroni, a naval engineer who was arrested near Leningrad last week and charged with espionage. Patroni is the chief of a technical delegation which was^lent to Russia by a big Italian shipbuilding company. The position is considered to be favourable as thirty Russian engineers who are studying under the same shipbuilders at Leghorn could be held as hostages if reprisals prove necessary.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 10
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94ARRESTED AS SPY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 10
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