WOMAN IMPRISONED
PROTEST BY BRITAIN REJECTION* BY SOVIET AMENABLE TO RUSSIAN LAW United Press Assn.—EJec. TeJ. Copyright MOSCOW, May 10 The Soviet has rejected the British protest regarding the arrest and solitary confinement for eight months of Rose Cohen, a British woman Communist, on the grounds that she married a Russian, surrendered her British passport and was admitted to Soviet citizenship at her own request in 1930, for which reason she is amenable to Russian law. Miss Cohen was for many years foreign editor of the -semi-official Moscow Daily News. She has been detained in the Ogpu's secret prisons on charges of espionage and conspiracy, and her arrest was uot admitted until March 19, in spite of Viscount Chilston's frequent inquiries.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 7
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