FEAR OF OGPU
RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT GUARDED BY POLICE SANCTUARY NEAR ROMK , QUESTION OF IDENTITY By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (•Received February -O, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 30 A message from Home states that a man claiming to be M. Butenko, tho Soviet diplomat who disappeared from his post in Bucharest last Tuesday week, whom Moscow declares to J,>e an impostor, >vas s.cpn to pay jkis, h,otel bill, call a taxi and drive off. He has not been seen si«&e. J,[. Bntcnjvo, itt a previous statement tp liij, said that sufficient prqgf pf his w.as pfiqt 46 journalists «f\v hiip ajyui uest hiffi.- Ijte frjiid scathingly cpndom.u,e,d Spvfet Russia and Compiypj^m. ■'■'jlfo .Ogpu is aftef me," said 3d. "$y life woufd not be safe \vefp I jtp Jtal.v. ,; is ,un,d'erstop,d ityat M. s.ptenko ha? ffffifi jtp £ msll fco-SW near ftpffffi, up fee ar.e guarding him. In a br^adcas,t address in broken [g-ififfixi, JjL &ytcuk,p fpypat,e.4 hj4> .dis^y,p ( \vai ,uf «Jh ft# thv ,»',egi|UJ,e. jf.c italy apd fascism and a<^<jlcd ; "i lippe niy y.pice i,pay be heard in Hussia, thus' establjishipg pjy identity."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22968, 21 February 1938, Page 14
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180FEAR OF OGPU New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22968, 21 February 1938, Page 14
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