MELITARY SECRETS
FAMOUS LETTER FORGERY. 9 ——
1 LEIPZIG, January 29. The famous? Zinovicff letter, which figured in the last general election in Britain cropped up on resumption of the trial io£ Johann Sehreck, charged with betraying German military secrets to a foreign power. Karl Bertens, a German pacifist liv-
ing at Geneva as a political fugitive, i was granted safe conduct and immunity from arrest in order to attend, and created a sensation when he said that a Polish spy named Paciorkovski, Employed at the Embassy in Berlin, forged the Zinovieff letter. Schreck was then living in the same boarding house as the Pole and helped him with the updrawing of the letter while committing his own forgeries.
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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1928, Page 6
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