KOSENKINA CASE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26852, 17 August 1948, Page 5

KOSENKINA CASE

NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS Rec. 9 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 15. Soviet Consulate officials refused to allow the police to call an ambulance after Mrs Kosenkina jumped from a Consulate window, says the New York Times to-day. Only by using a ruse did the police summon the ambulance. Five policemen followed members of the Consulate through the basement as they carried the woman into the Consulate. Once inside, a sergeant asked permission to use a telephone to call an ambulance. This was refused. He argued for some minutes and when h§ said he wanted to get a doctor he was permitted to make a call. The policemen then went to the telephone and called not only for an ambulance, but for police radio cars. When the ambulance driver arrived carrying a stretcher, he was refused admission In a few minutes, however, when confronted with an increasing number of police. Consulate attaches opened the door and the driver and doctor were admitted. ,

While waiting for the ambulance, the sergeant kept asking Mrs Kosenkina whether she wanted the ambulance, but every time he talked to her —in English—Soviet attaches would begin speaking excitedly in Russian. The Times adds that members of the House Un-American Activities Committee may question her while she is in hospital. The committee has already had a secret session with the other Russian teacher, Mikhail Samarin, aged 40, and his wife Claudia, also aged 40, both of whom refused to return to Russia.