ALLEGED ESPIONAGE.
PRISONERS OF THE SOVIET. SUPPOSED BRITISH SYSTEM. Times. LONDON, Aug. 30. The Riga correspondent of the Times says the Soviet' announces that a great trial of alleged British spies will be commenced before a military court at Leningrad on September 2. The announcement promises the unfolding of details of an elaborate British spying system in and around Russia since 1919, under a British captain named Boyd, until the arrest of Goycr, who was acting as Boyd's agent from Warsaw. Altogether 26 persons are to be tried. They include Coyer, a former officer named Sckoloff, who is described as one of the chief organisers of the service, and a number of other Russians, who are charged with offering shelter and assistance to the alleged spies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19730, 1 September 1927, Page 9
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126ALLEGED ESPIONAGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19730, 1 September 1927, Page 9
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