HOW A RUSSIAN TRAITOR MET HIS BOOM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16024, 16 September 1915, Page 7

HOW A RUSSIAN TRAITOR MET HIS BOOM.

ten years in THE ENEMY'S pay. CAUGHT BY A BOGUS MILITARY ORDER. Rece.Tod September 1«. 1 a.m.i London. September 15. The papers have published details „f the case .»f the Russian detective officer. Miassayednff. who v.as hanged in April for espionage in connection with the operations on the Vistula and Nil-men. Miass.ayedoffs special duty was to watch over the Tsar's personal safety. He asked to be attached to the Grand Duke Nicholas's staff. Documents found on a Bavarian officers body at the Yser showed that some spy in R ussia had communicated information regarding Russian movements to the enemy, thu* enabling the latter to take counter-measures. The s Grand Duke Nicholas, suspecting the spy's identitv concocted a military order, care being taken that it was communicated only to a small group of suspects. The result that was expected happened. The Germans showed a knowledge of the order and took nnhtary action, whereupon Miassayedoff, cornered bv the Grand Duke, confessed, and betrayed his accomplices Miassayedoff had been in Germany's pay for ten years and had revealed all Russia military and political secrets, his treason bringing htm mtlhons or roubles, only an infinitesimal fraction of which went .to h, subordinate. On one occasion he withheld a special order for -4 hours, and thus saved the German army from an inevitable dtsaster