DECLARED FALSE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 January 1929, Page 5

DECLARED FALSE.

ALLEGATIONS OF BRIBERY,

SENATE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATE CHARGES.

i-U L’reso Association—By Electnc Telegraph Copyright.; (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. A sensation has been caused here by the announcement that ji Senate committee has been secretly investigating documents here and abroad pretending to show that Senators W. E.' Borah and Norris received 100,000 dollars each from the Soviet ambassador at Paris, and that Senators Borah, Norris, Lafollette and Heflin also received 1,215,000 dollars from the Mexican Government.*

The committee to-day rendered a unanimous declaration that the charges were absolutely false and the documents an utter forgery. While the documents relative to the Mexican matter have been under investigation for over a year, the Russian aspect came as a complete surprise, and the Senate report indicated the existence of an elaborate system of dissemination of such forged documents. The chairman of the committee, Senator J. A. Reed, described the system as a ‘‘nefarious traffic,” adding that the whole matter would be amusing if it. did not trifle with the reputations that it was to the interest of all America to hold above suspicion.