ENEMIES OF SOVIET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20307, 15 July 1929, Page 11

ENEMIES OF SOVIET.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK ACTIVITY

BERLIN COURT'S SENTENCES. Australian and ~5,7.. Press Association. (.Received July It. 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN'. July 13. Two Russians, Orloff and I'avlonovski, were to-day sentenced to four months' imprisonment for forging international documents. The Court took into account the long period the men had spoilt in gaol awaiting trial. The accused men have had remarkable careers. They were employed by tho notorious C'heka (Russian Secret Police) after the downfall of the monarchy in Russia. However, they wero found to be monarchist agents and were sentenced to death. They managed to escape from Russia and came to Germany. The men carried on* violent antiBolshevik propaganda in Germany. '1 hey pleaded at their trial that any measures calculated to rid Russia of her present rulers were permissible.

The Berlin police on March 2 arrested Vladimir Orloff and Michael Surnarakoff. They were believed to be members of a dangerous gang of forgers of international documents. They were suspected of having forged letters accusing the American Senators, Messrs. \V. E. Borah and G. W. Norris, of having received £20.000 from the Soviet Government for services to be rendered in obtaining the recognition of the Soviet by the United States. Detectives discovered two trunks full of documents written in Russian, together with a number of false rubber metal stamps. Surnarakoff was formerly an envoy of the Ukraine to Moscow. There lias been no previous reference in the cablegrams to Pavlonovski. A message from Berlin 011 March 3 statedOrloff was once a chief of the secret police in Russia in tho time of the Tsar. He is now a master spy who is seeking to avenge the murdered Emperor. Also arrested was Gertrude Duemmler, a girl of bewitching beauty, who was Orloff's secretary.

The police raided Orloff's country house at Schandau. I hey lound there a finely equipped chemical and an arsenal of small arms. It is believed that many alleged Russian documents published "in Europe were manufactured at Orloff's factory at Schandau. Mr. Knickerbocker, Berlin correspondent of a New York newspaper, tricked - Surnarakoff into lending him some forged documents for a sufficient time to have them photographed. In that way the Berlin political police were able to arrest the gang.