RED RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10412, 20 October 1927, Page 5

RED RUSSIA.

M.OKE ALLEGED ESPIONAGE WOKE. BRITISH MISSION SAID Tu POSSESS SECRET PLANS. DENIAL IN LONDON. (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Deceived. Oct. 19, 9.55 p.rn.) LONDONOct. PJ. The forthcoming trial of live Russians alleged to have been employed on- espionage work by the British 'Mission in Moscow, was made the occasion of j melodramatic charges against the’ Mission. The names ol the accused; who are all stated to have confessed, are lUyril and Vladimir Prove, sons of a farmer Moscow millionaire; Korepakoll, counsellor to tho Soviet .War Department; Podreskoff and Nankolf. A statement dealing with the case published in the Moscow Press: and transmitted to the Daily Express) firms that correspondence between Sir T. Hodgson and Mr Preston, British Consul in Leningrad, which fell into the hands of the secret police during a raid, proved conclusively that espionage is being earned on. Sir T. Hodgson’s most active collaborator was Air Edward Charnock, secretary to the 'Mission, who was successful in recruiting spies. It is declared that the stolen secret plans mid other documents were transmitted to Air Chariiock in return for American dollars and English clothing. Tlie chief agents in giving information were the Proves and Korcpakod. interviews between .the Proves and Chariiock generally occurred in some cinema, or one or the Aloscow squares whither Air Chariiock drove in a car bearing the British ilag. Air Oliarnock is at present in London and emphatically denies that any of those arrested were in any way associated with the Alission. “I never met one of these in mv life,” he said. “It is just another of the long series of scandals which lias followed the withdrawal of the Alission. We are naturally concerned over the arrests as they , mean almost certain death to innocent people.’’—Times.