FOREIGN “BEAUTIES.”

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 21 July 1937, Page 13

FOREIGN “BEAUTIES.”

Beautiful foreign spies have “permeated ail quarters of the Soviet,” said Prosecutor Vishinsky in a broadcast. He was warning all Russians to bo careful in their speech and doubly careful 'in their cups. “There are still hundreds of thousands of foreign spies among us,” he said. “Young girls and women are especially numerous. They are all beautiful, and have ‘intimate’ flats, to which they invite officers and engineers, who, under the influence of alcohol, betray guarded secrets of the Soviet.” He warned his hearers to beware of summer resorts, where these “beautiful spies” developed their , work. “They must be stamped out without pity, and everyone must help!” ho said. An official announcer who followed M. Vishinsky at the microphone, said that at Kuznetsk, the centre of an armament industry in the Central Volga region, 480 persons, of whom 130 were women, had been arrested on espionage charges. Most of the others, he said, were engineers and technicians engaged on armament production.