The Soviet Touch

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 178, 13 July 1927, Page 5

The Soviet Touch

Death Sentence Pawed. CHARGES AGAINST DRIYCLOWBKI NO APPEAL ALLOWED (Pv Cable-Press Assn.—Copyright. I (Received 13. 11.5 a.m.) Moscow, July 12. Driyelowski has been sentenced to death. The Soviet prosecutor made Che new assertion, without giving details, that Driyelowski was involved in a plot to blow up Westminster Abbey.

Ths main charges related to a supposed forgery factory in an obscure room in Berlin, where, it is alleged, the ZinovieS letter was forged by two Russian White Guards, Belgart and Gumanski. He received only £5O because the letter was prematurely published in a Berlin newspaper. Driyelowski was deported from Berlin for forging documents on be. half of the Bulgarian rising. He was then hounded from one country to another until, sick and hungry, he returned to Russia through aware of the fate awaiting him. It is alleged that he acted as a spy on behalf of Britain in Poland. Bulgaria, Germany, and the Baltic States.

Only 32 years of age, he heard the sentence unmoved. There can be no appeal against the sentence because it is imposed by a military tribunal (A. and N.Z.)

A message from Moscow stated that many charges of falsifying and forging documents made against Sergei Driyelowski. included the autnorship of the Zinovieff letter; also trafficking in uoeuments with Bulgaria. Germany and the United States He has been in prison since last year. It is claimed that he warned Bulgaria of a Communist plot shortly before St. Nedelia Cathedral in Sofia was blown up Tt is alleged that Driyelowski confessed that British Secret Service agent s in Bui garia in collaboration with Russian refugees fabricated the Zinovieff letter for which £B"’ was paid.