SOVIET SPY
DEATH SENTENCE IMPOSED. Moscow, July 12. Drujelowski was sentenced to death. The Soviet prosecution made a new assertion without giving details that Drujelowski was involved in a plot to blow up Westminster Abbey. The main charges related to the supposed forgery factory in an obscure room in Berlin where it is alleged the Zinoviev letter was forged by two Russian “White Guards,” Balgart and Gumanski. He received only £.BO because the letter was prematurely published in a Berlin newspaper. Drujelowski was deported from Berlin for forging documents on behalf of a Bulgarian rising. He was then hounded from one country to another till, sick and hungry, he returned to Russia, though aware of the fate awaiting him. It is alleged he acted as a spy on behalf of Britain in Poland, Bulgaria, Germany and the Baltic States. He is only thirty-two years of age. He heard the sentence unmoved. There is no appeal against the sentence because it was imposed by a military tribunal.’—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20229, 14 July 1927, Page 5
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168SOVIET SPY Southland Times, Issue 20229, 14 July 1927, Page 5
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