RUSSIAN ESPIONAGE.
("TOMAN SOCIALISTS PROTEST.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
Berlin, January 20. A heated debate took place in .he ] Reichstag, the Socialists accusing Count Von Bulow, Chancellor of the German' Empire, of conniving at an elaborate system of Russian espionage and political persecution, conducted from Berlin and other Gerir" ' cities, i.nd directed against all political suspects, especially students, under the pretext that they are Anarchists. It was alleged that many of them had been seized and hurried across the Russian frontier without judicial authority. Heir Bebel, the leader of the Socialists, declared that Germany had cringed and crawled before Russia. Her subserviency was so extreme that it seemed that she was willing to black Russia's boots. Baron von Richthofen, Secretary of Slate for Foreign Affairs, in reply said that the fanatical opponents of the institutions of a friendly Power did not deserve sentimental sympathy. ' The Government intended to continue to deport such persons across the Russian frontier, no matter what people might think.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12447, 22 January 1904, Page 5
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