THE ZINOVIEFF LETTER.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1925, Page 12

THE ZINOVIEFF LETTER.

SOLVING THE MYSTERY. In Vienna “X. 7. claims to have solved the mystery of the Zinovieff letter. "Well,” says his —alas! anonymous—informant, "this is its history. The letter was composed by the anti-Bolshevik organisation in Moscow, which is supported by the German Secret Service, who knew the English Bolshevik agent entrusted with the mission of gathering news from Russia, showed it to the agent who, after taking a copy of it, sent it to his correspondents in London. There it was seized, opened, photographed, and forwarded to its destination, the headquarters of the Bolsheviks in England ” Returning to Berlin, “X. 7. went to the headquarters of the Secret Service, which, he says, are still in the same building as during the war. He reported the Zinovieff letter discovery to his chief, to whom he refers as “Major von Keller.” “The trick was well engineered, you must admit,” was the major’s comment.

A writer in the Daily Chronicle says that the outcome is a book that inevitably challenges conflmation or contradiction from some of the personalities whose statements are quotetd. Mingled with these interviews and statements are passages that will make Mr. William Le Queux and other novelists whose “raw material” is international plots, oounterploits and spies, look to their laurels.