SOVIET CONSULATE OFFICIALS TRY TO STOP AMBULANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 August 1948, Page 5

SOVIET CONSULATE OFFICIALS TRY TO STOP AMBULANCE

Police Had To Adopt Ruse To Get Medical Aid To Injured Woman (N.Z.P.A.—Copyright.) Received 7.25 p.m. , NEW YORK, Aug. 15 Soviet Consulate officials refused to allow the police to (all an ambulance after Mrs. Kosenkina, a Russian school teacher, leapt from a window, says the “New York Times” today.

Only by using a ruse did the police summon the ambulance. Five policemen followed the members of the Consulate through the basement as they carried the woman into the Consulate. Once inside, a sergeant asked permission to use the telephone to call an ambulance. This was refused. He argued for some minutes, and when he said he wanted to get a doctor he was permitted to make the call. The policemen then went to the telephone and called not only for the 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, i 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 an ambulance, but every time lie 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 other Russian teachers, Mikhail Samarin, aged 40, and his wife Claudia, also aged 40, both of whom refuse to return to Russia.