OFFERING A BRIBE
SECOND EDITION
SOVIET OFFICIAL ARRESTED. MONEY IN HIS POSSESSION. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 15, 12.30 p.m. ' PEKIN, July 14. Eugene Fortunnlolf, the Soviet Consulate doctor, was remanded 011 a charge of offering a bribe-to a public official in connection with the case ol Dosser, a suspected Bolshevist, who was recently detained. The police assert that lie offered a municipal policeman 10,000 dollars to sign a document declaring that he forged Dosser's certificate by instructions of his British superior officer. He pretended to comply and the police arrested Fortimatoff when he attended a tryst with 10.000 dollars in his possession, which the police seized. Dosser, when examined, declared the certificate to be a forgery. He denied that a branch of the Soviet Communist Party existed in Shanghai. — A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 189, 15 July 1925, Page 10
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