AN UNWELCOME VISITOR

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10645, 19 July 1920, Page 6

AN UNWELCOME VISITOR

ARRESTED AND DEPORTED BOLSHEVIK AGENT IN BRITAIN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON, July 17. According to the London ''Daily Herald," -Scotland Yard officers havo arrested Nuorteva, the secretary to the Bolshevik Bureau of New York, who recently came to London in connection with the Canadian Government trade negotiations with Russia. (Received July 18, 11.5 p.m.)

LONDON, July 17

The British have deported the Bolshevik agent Santcri Nuorteva, and the American Soviet- Bureau consequently announced the provisional cancellation of a six-million dollar deal for raw materials from Canada, which 'Nuorteva had negotiated, subject to his arranging a financial deal in London. Tho authorities regard tho story of the Canadian transactions ,■ as a mere blind covering purely Bolshevik purposesA THREAT~~FROM RUSSIA. "(Received July 19, 12.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 17. The Russian Soviet Bureau announces that it has notified' the Montreal concern that contrrfts for six million dollars worth of supplies for Soviet Russia will be cancelled if England deports Nouorteva, secretary to Martens, the unrecognised Soviet Ambassador to the United States.