SINISTER DESIGNS ON SOVIET’S FLEET

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3614, 15 September 1927, Page 7

SINISTER DESIGNS ON SOVIET’S FLEET

Ridiculous Charges Levelled at Britain

< ‘ WHOLE CONSIGNMENTS OF SPIES”

[By Electric Cable-Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Wednesday, 7 pm.)

LONDON, Sept. 14.

The “ Daily Express’s ” Moscow correspondent, detailing the spies’ trial, says tho State prosecutor made a fivehours’ speech, mainly an indictment against England and the Chamberlain Note, which is described as full of lies, blackmail and hypocrisy.

He alleged that Britain had been sending whole consignments of spies to Russia, her final aim always being the blowing up of the Baltic fleet in order to open the road to Leningrad.

The information which the British spy masters, Captain (name omitted), and Colonel Meiklejohn, asked Goyer and Klopushkin to obtain usually concerned the fleet. Tho spies were recruited from among members of the Russian aristocracy because counterrevolution and espionage were inseparable.

Ho further alleged that the Dutchman Goycr was entrusted with the most important work because he chose his informants with great skill. He worked on behalf of the British Mission in Moscow. This Mr. Hodgson has since explicitly denied. Professor Nikitin, a talkative Soviet poison? gas expert, who liked his wife to have silk stockings in return for which ho gave what he said was harmless information, received a year's imprisonment. EXPLOITING TRIAL I'OR WAR-SCARE CAMPAIGN. (Received Wednesday, 10.6 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 14. The Riga Correspondent of the “Times” states that according to tho Baltic press a Norwegian diplomatist on behalf of the British Government informed tho Soviet that none of the accused sentenced to death for spying worked for the British Government.

The Soviet is exploiting t]ic trial throughout Russia for a war-scare campaign.