ESPIONAGE CHARGES.
SOVIET METHODS EXPLAINED. MR. CHAHNOC-K’S DENIAL. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Oct. 20. Mr. E. Charnock, formerly British Vice-Consul in Moscow, amplifying his denial that he organised a spying system there, says: “Almost at the moment the British mission left wholesale arrests of innocent Russians began. “Felin, whose wife was a dancing instructress and a friend of my niece, was arrested ami shot, and scores of alleged white guaids were rounded up and executed. “The Russian authorities are now apprehending every man, woman and child who came into contact with me during 27 years. The process is simple. A family is arrested, its members interrogated individually and ■asked in whose house they met me. This means the arrest of the other family, and if guests are mentioned they also are arrested.
“The two Probe brothers were personal friends of myself and my wife for many years, but it is sheer nonsense to say our association was for the purpose of espionage.’’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 October 1927, Page 5
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162ESPIONAGE CHARGES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 October 1927, Page 5
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