AN OGPU RAID.
BRITISH EXPERTS ARRESTED IN MOSCOW. EMPLOYING FIRM SEEKS EXPLANATION. INVESTIGATION BY FOREIGN OFFICE. (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 13. The Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company is anxiously awaiting news of the Ogpu’s unexplained arrest at Moscow of four of the company’s principal representatives—Messrs. Alan Monkhouse, W. H. Thornton, John Cushy and W. H. MacDonald—who went to Russia under agreement as technical advisers in connection with the manufacture of electrical plant. An unnamed Latvian and four Russians, namely two typists and two chauffeurs, were also arrested. Vickers’s business offices in Moscow were raided and papers were seized. Mr Monkhouse’s dwelling was raided and ransacked for five hours. Mattresses were ripped. Mr. Thornton’s dwelling, next door, was then searched. Vickers’s general manager at Manchester, Mr. George Bailey, says he is certain none of the four men has done anything contrary to Russian policy. Measures arc being taken to safeguard the men's and the company’s interests. The British Foreign Office is investigating.
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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1933, Page 5
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