Soviet Version

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 177, 12 July 1927, Page 6

Soviet Version

British Espionage.

THE ZINOVIEFF LETTER. ALLEGED CONFESSION. (Received 11, 1.25 p.m.) derhti, July 10. The Soviet version oi nnusn espionage states that prisoners in the pay oi Britain assisted the Tzarist Monarchist and devoted special attention to Ivussia's war preparations and imparted much naval and military information, it is just a question whether the accused will be given a trial or summarily executed. It is alleged that Dujilowski conlessed that British Secret Service agents in Bulgaria in collaboration with Russian refugees, fabricated the Zinovieff letter for which £BO was paid—(A. and N.Z.) ENGLISHMAN TO BE TRIED. (Received 11, 1.25 p.m.) London, July 10. The British United Press’ Moscow correspondent reports that the secret police assert that they have broke’] up the British espionage system by the arrest in Leningrad of 25 peopi?, 14 of whom are Russians. The police assert that an Englishman named Bouce was directing the organisation. These will be brought up for tiial shortly.—(A. and N.Z.) An overnight cable from London stated: A British United Press Association message from Moscow states that many charges of falsifying and forging documents made against Sergei Drujelowski, include the authorship of the Zinovieff letter; also trafficking in documents with Bulgaria, Germany and th 0 United States. He has been in prison since last year. A special court will try him in August. It is claimed that he warned Bulgaria of a Communist plot shortly before St. Ncdclia Cathedral in Sofia was blown up.