THE CHINA MAIL,- AUGUST. 1938.
EX-PREMIER TELLS OF OGPU PLOT TO TRAP HIM
Mr. Alexander
an "Evening Standard" Reporter:
Kerensky, once edits his magazine, "New Russia,” Prime Minister of Russia, told me there is another house occupied by to-day the full story of the trap set some friends.
for him in Paris by agents of the One day two men called upon Ogpu which he mentioned In an ad- them representing themselves 88 dress at Kensington Town Hall last telephone engineers, with instruc- night.
tions to test the working of telephone.
"It was about a year ago,” said Mr. Kerensky, "shortly after the kidnapping of the White Russian General Muller. I think the idea was to kidnap me. The plot mis- carried, so we shall never 'know what was intended.”
!
In the Paris street in
NOT GENUINE
the
They did their job and went away. A few weeks later the telephone was working badly and indistinctly. Mr. Kerensky's friends communicat- which led with the telephone engineers.
stands the villa, where Mr. Kerensky The inspector who came round found
"CITY PLANNING CONFLICTS WITH REFUGEE CAMP
Shanghai, July 20.
that the two men had put in a second line which enabled a man at other end to hear any conversation on this telephone.
the
The two men were not genuine telephone engineers, but Ogpu agents.
The second line was placed to a third house in the same street. In this house was a flat rented by French Communist of Central Eur- opean origin, well known in the The question arising out of the party but not to those outside. failure of the Shanghai Inter- On the table was a complete ap- national Red Cross to obtain per-paratus for listening in to telephone mission to build three new refugee conversations. It was also discovered camps on extra-Settlement road that a wire of Mr. Kerensky's office areas was again brought to the telephone had been tapped from the attention of the public yesterday when the Japanese embassy spokes All conversations between the two man corrected a press report which
houses could be overheard and Mr. stated that the Nanking “Reformed
Kerensky's movements and · · plans. Government was dealing with the watched. issue.
He pointed out that the Chinese agency dealing with the matter was the "Municipal Government ministration of Shanghai, and not the Nanking regime.
HAS “CITY PLANNING"
same source.
KNEW NOTHING
When the police raided the flat the agent had disappeared. His wife disclaimed knowledge of his where- abouts, and two or three subor- dinates found on the premises were interrogated în vain.: They could
The "Municipal Government" ad- tell nothing of their chief's move- ministration, he said, had found ments.
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that the plans of the International-It-was-established-that the office Red Cross to operate camps east of of "New Russia” had been the railway were in conflict with its observation by Communist agents, "schemes of city planning.” How- apart from the tapping of the telep- ever, it was willing to extend to the hone wires. Red Cross facilities for the es- the tablishment of camps west of railway.
Foreigners here failed yesterday
many
I asked Mr. Kerensky whether any similar plot had ever been laid against him in this country where he spends about half his time.
"No," he said, "it is not so easy to ascertain the nature of the city here. In France there are planning" which the local regime employees on the telephone and is stated to be preparing to put into other services who are members of effect in the Great Western Road, the Communist Party." Tunsin Road and "Avenue Haig area where the three S.I.G.C. camps were originally planned to be located..
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authorities can have no assurance that delivery of supplies and en- trance of administrative officials Areas adjacent to the projected will not be blocked, the spokesman camp sites are at the present time stated.
being used for
poses while in-storage pur- The S.I.G.C., in an effort to
ac-
of houses in commodate 25.000 refugees who the districts in the general vicinity were due for eviction from private start- of the sites picked out by the Inter- properties which they occupy, national Red Cross are known to be ed construction of three camps in the early part of June. This con- used as gambling dens.
work, however, was struction
spokesman of the S.I.R.C pointed out yesterday that his or-
to
stopped by the Japanese authorities on the ground that no previous
ganisation is not in a position.... permission had been secured from accept the offer for building camps them. They pointed out that the west of the railway unless these offers are accompanied by permis- comps were to be located in the unrestricted outsido road area a district over
sion for absolutely
access to the area.
It is impossible to feed, and, give médical care to “number of refugees when the
which they claim jurisdiction...
Following several talks between clothe, the S.I.G.C. officials and the Jap large anese authorities, the construction relief work was finally abandoned:
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