GRIM STORY OF WAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20931, 22 January 1930, Page 6

GRIM STORY OF WAR

SKELETONS IN A CELLAR. SECRET SERVICE AGENTS SHOT.*^ r (Doited Pres* Association.) (By Electric Telegraph--Copyright.) BERLIN, January 20. (Received Jan. 21, at 5.5 p.m.) A . grim story of the war has been unearthed at Warsaw. According to the newspapers three skeletons which were recently discovered in a cellar have' been identified by fragments of the clothing as Englishmen named Herbert George and Sidney Peel; and an Englishwoman named Ruth Jameson, all members rof the British Secret Service, who were sent to Warsaw in 1914 to discover the chief of the German spy organisation, who, it was ascertained was a Russian priest named Chachlakow, who waa in constant communication with a Russian, Captain Mjassojebow,. at- Petro- jo grad. This they reported to Petrograd and London, • after which they received' a telegram ordering them to Petrograd and report to M. Sukhpmlinow, the Russian Minister of War. A military motor car met them, after which they disappeared. • The newspapers state that they were betrayed to Mjassojebow, who sent a fictitious telegram and arranged that they should be immediately shot. Mjassejebow’s treachery was later, discovered, and .he was shot , for espionage on behalf of Germany in 1915. Chachlakow was arrested and released, but he was recently arrested aga%Mn Poland on-a charge of espionage. *Tha trial is expected to refer to the murders. O