O.G.P.U. ARRESTS
BRITISH COMPANY OFFICIALS OFFICES AND HOMES RAIDED. NO EXPLANATION GIVEN. London, March 13. The Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company is anxiously nwtutu g news of the Ogpu’s unexplained arrest al Moscow of lour of their principal representatives, Messrs Alan Monkhouse W. H. Thornton, John Cushy and VV. H. Macdonald, who went to Russia un. tier agreement as technical advisers in connection with the manufacture of electrical plant. Four Russians — namely, two typists and two chauffeurs were also arrested. Vickers’ business offices m Moscow wei raided and papers seized, while Mr Monkhouse's dwelling was raided and ransacked lor five hours. Mattresses were ripped in Mr Thornton’s dwelling next door and then searched. Vickers’ general manage! at Man ehestcr, Mr George Bailey, ‘■ays that he is certain that none of the four men has done anything contrary to Russian policy. Measures are being taken to safeguard the men’s and the company's interests, and the I tisli Foreign Office is investigating. “The Daily Express’’ says that the Moscow raids on Metropolitan Vickers are inexplicable and that the foreign business colony in Moscow is in a state of high alarm. Vickers and its employees hitherto stood in the highest repute in Russia. .Mr Monkhouse was born in New Zealand. He is a nephew of the dramatist, Mr Allan Monkhouse.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 78, 14 March 1933, Page 6
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