ARRESTED IN RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 22954, 11 May 1938, Page 9

ARRESTED IN RUSSIA

THE CASE OF ROSE COHEN BRITISH PROTEST REJECTED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, May 10. The Soviet rejected the British protest with regard to Rose Cohen on the grounds that she married a Russian and surrendered her British passport. _ She was admitted to Soviet citizenship at her own request in 1936, and for this reason she was amenable to Russian law. [A message received on April 20 read as follows:—“Acting under instructions from Lord Halifax, Viscount Chilston, the British Ambassador, vigorously protested against the arrest and solitary confinement for eight months of a British woman Communist, Rose Cohen, aged 44, says the Moscow correspondent of the ‘ Daily Telegraph.’ “ Viscount Chilston informed M. Litvinov that the Soviet had contravened the agreement of July 14, 1937, under which Britain granted the Soviet access to Russians arrested almost throughout the whole of the British Empire. Russia pledged herself to notify the British Embassy _of the arrest and imprisonment of British subjects. Viscount Chilston told M. Litvinov that Britain takes the gravest view of the Cohen and other cases, and if this attitude was persisted in it would seriously prejudice Anglo-Russian relax tions. Miss Cohen, who for many years was foreign editor of the semi-official Moscow ‘Daily News,* was detained in the O.G.P.XJ.’s secret prisons on charges of espionage and conspiracy. Her arrest was not admitted until last Tuesday, despite Viscount Chilsten’s frequent inquiries.]