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"CAUGHT SPYING
RED-HANDED"
SOVIET CHARGE AGAINST US
NAVAL OFFICER
Moscow, August 15. Lieutenant Robert Drohor, the American Assistant Naval and Military Attache in Moscow, was "cought spying red-handed" and sent home, Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party nows- paper, said today.
"The proofs were so indisputable that the Embassy did not even try to deny them and without any. objections fulfilled the Soviet Foreign Minister's request for his immediate departure from the Soviet Union," Pravda wrote.
An American Embassy spokesman today confirmed + to Router that Lieutenant Dreher had been sent back to the United States in April, but had no further comment.
all
0
Mr..
Pravda said that the Attache now attached to the Offee of the gul secret military information Chief of Naval Operations. from a Soviet customs officer in service record shown that he 1st Moscow. They were caught in
an engineer quallied for special- April and, under questioning,st duties. both admitted
Michael carlier
McDermott, the Sinte Department Press Officer,| meeting in January.
bald that the American Ambassa Describing the later incittent, or, General Walter Bedeli Pravda wrote: "As Soviet Smith, had been enlled to the security officer entered a room of Soviet Foreign Office on April 25 the customs building unexpected-by M. Andrei Vyshinsky, n De- ly on April 23, he found a cus-
puty Foreign Minister, who re- Lacutenant Dreher toms official, who had been under quested that
uspicion for some time, and a
be sent home sit once. civilian writing notes. The security officer naked them to produce the notes and seized several sheets which they had no time to hide.
Mr. McDermott sakl: "The Am-
Dern bassador pointed out to AL. Vyshinky that Lieutenant Dṛcher had gone to the Moscow custonis house at the request of a Soviet customs Meiat in connection The stranger attempted to tear with shipments of Embassy pro them up and assaulted the officer.party from Odessa, where Lier- It was established that the note tenant Dreher kad previous:y hook of the customs official con- been stationed and that the pre- tained highly secret, military in-sence of agents of the NKVD formation and the other papers (secret police) on the scene would contained more detailed data on indicate that this interview had the same subject in Englishs. been arranged by the Soviet au-
thorities."
The stranger in civilinn
Correspondents asked Mr. Mc- clothes was Identified as the As-Dermott what he meant by ar
Cost of Living Doubled
Shanghal, August 16. The cost of living In Shanghel has soared another 100 per cent in the past fort. night, cording to official figures released today by the City Government.
The increans is believed to be mainly due to the con- tinued upward spurt in the price of rice and approxim ately a 300 per cont hike in public utility rates.
The City authorities have placed the cost of living for the first half of August at 3.670.000 times that for 1930, compared with only 1,800,000 times at the end of July.
The price of ride today stood at an all-time high of $75 million per picul level of 170 pounds weight-a riso of $11 million in the past 36 The unprecedented
hours. jump to reported to be caus au by rumour that the locat authorities would soon aban- don the rice rationing scheme.
In
the denying
report "absolutely unfounded," Mayor K. C. Wu said today that rationed
rice for September and October have already boon bought And stored-Router,
Shanghai Wages Doubled
Shanghal, August 15. Trying to keep pace with inflation, the government today cent
sistant Military and Naval AL- runged, and the Press Officer re-increased wages 05 per tache at the American Embassy plled: "In gooth American lingo, The customs ofcial admitted to it was a plant.". having collected and transmitted;
to Lleutenant Dreher, at the Int-i Orders To Return ter's request, secret information.
The customa oficial said: "Our previous meeting
·
more than last month's.
re-
Secret Eire Talks Discounted
London, August 15.
Reports of an impending re- casting of relations between the British Government and the Governments of Northern Ire-) land and Eire were discounted in authoritative circles in Lon- don today,
Mr. Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister, has been spending
口 holiday in ́Eiro, and will go to Northern Ireland tomorrow to see Sir Basil Brooke, the Northern Ireland Premier.
It has been thought that this would be the occasion for talks on the possibility of ending the partition between Elro and the six counties comprising Northern Ireland.
Mr.
Attice and his wife are to make * "purely private visit" to Sir Beoll's home. They will return on Tuesday to Eire and travel thence to Britain on Thursday.
Other senior British Ministers have recently visited Ireland; but it is stated here that there is no foundation for the conjoc- ture that these vizita and that of Mr. Attlee are being made the occasion for discussions with the Elre and Northern Ireland au- thorities with a view to a gen- eral re-casting of relations.— Reuter.
De Valero Comment
Ennis, Eire, August 15.. Mr. Eamon de Valera, former Prime Minister, in an address here today sak that Ireland must become a unified country.
of Sir
Baall
tioned counties are our brothers." "The people of the six part-
he said. "They want to be with us and we swene before heaven Unless the Government
that we shall never give up un- leases a large quantity of bank-til they are with us." nates to private banks employers Mr. De Valern challenged a Tomorrow will find it difcult to recent statement Mr. McDermott added that Am-pay mid-month
wages because Brooke, Northern Ireland pre- look pinee in bassador Smith told Vyshinsky of the tight money
mier,
that the door is closed to situation. Moscow In January, when I gave that the lieutenant had completed Banks have been Dreher other secret information" this two-year tour of duty and depositors to the amount of cash
restricting unton.
"The door never will be closed [ was under routine orders to re-they can withdraw because of and there are other doors," đó the shortage of banknotes. The Valera aaid. "If we pursue the lowest limit was CN$50,000,000 cause of ending partition with the equivalent of about U.S.$4.
same determination that we Despite wrote. down on my writing pad. The implication. in view of
wage Increases, pursued the cause of liberty here, workers complained that they
that door will, be opened."--- In January I met him (the cuss the lapse of time since the in- toms officint) in the Moscow cus-cident took place, was according the increasing living costs.
were not enough to keep up with sociated Press. toms house and also received to the State Department's belief
They pointedl out that rico secret information from him." -that the Soviet policy is to jumped more than 50 per cent)
create a reserve of propaganita in less then one week. Rice incidents to be used when the now is selling need arises.
(CN$70,000,000)
"The newspaper quoted Lleu-turn to the United States and had tenant Dreher as saying under applied for an exit visa on April interrogation: "I admit I re-16-before the incident at the ceived secret information which I customs house.
Embassy Informed
huge
for
U.S.37 175 pound
Increases will bring the wago of the average labourer-upon which the cost of living index is based-up to 91 per cent more than last month.--Associated Press,
The United States Embassy in Mrs. Frances Dreher; his mo-bag. Mostow was informed thai. Lieu-ther, said In Oil City, Pennsyl- tenant Dreher had been caughtvania; that she had spoken to her while engaged in spying, Pravda son by telephone today. Leuten added.
ant Dreher had been working in Washington since July 4, she In Washington, the State De-added.-Reuter. partment today described the So- viet charges of espionage against Lieutenant__Dreher as "a plant." The State DepartmentTM implied) that the charges were designed to counter the current espionage in- vestigations in the United States.
The Navy Department said to- day that Lieutenant Dreher Is
FUTURE OF THE NEW
N. China Conference Approved
Shanghai, August 15, Soviet Russia has approv ed the Chinese Communist "Liberated
"Trade"
SOVIET ACCUSED OF Union Conference now
FRAMING DREHER
Washington, August 15. The United States State Department alleged today that Russian authorities actually framed up an espionago caso against US Navy Lieutenant Robert Drohar, whom the Moscow press and radio accused of serving as an American spy.
REPUBLIC The American version of the latest bizarre'develop-
an
meeting in Harbin, the Com. munist Radio reported today, It was the first time Communist China had received any en couragement from
official Soviet group since the Kremlin signed a pact with Nanking three years ago promising not to in tertore
China's domestic affairs,
in
The red radio said that the greetings-signed by V. Kuznet- zov, chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, -Bald "Soviet. trade unions firm--
bolleve that' Chinese demo- cratic trade unions will ⚫ con- tinue to struggle actively for the futuro democratic *reform of China and the consolidation of world trade unions.”
of
Shanghai, August 18.
ment in Soviet-American relations was given Editorialising today on the out by Mr. Michael J. McDermott, State De- birth of the new Korean Re-
partment Press Officer. It differed in virtually public, the British-owned "North-China Dally News" said.
all major respects from the Russian account, with her future freedom in
Mr. McDermott said the fternal Affairs (MVD) on charges threat by Communism, Korea evidence against the 32-year- of receiving, unauthorised In- dopended, for her continuance old Assistant US Naval Attache formation from n Soviet customs
The message looked forward in freedom on
to "build improvenient in the precisely that was deliberately, planted by omelal. Lieutenant.- Dreher had condition
the working degree of cohesion among the Soviet authorities, using the been released after several hours. people" in China. democracies as does the peace powerful Russian secret Police, detention and hurt reported this of the rest of the world.
incident to the Ambassador.
The Communists featured the after he had applied for a Much depends upon the firm Soviet exit visa to leave the
"On April 20, Rir. Vishinsky, radio broadcast as Chinese news- Inessage in the North Shensi nors, with which the democracies
Deputy, Foreign Minister, sent papers here marked country. An meet the intrigues of the Soviet Union in other parts of tenant Dreher was caught reformed him that because of this treaty by deploring the
The Russian story is that Lieu- for the US Ambarcador and in-anniversary of the Sino-Soviet the world, the paper added,
Incident, the Soviet Government celving secret information from requested that Lt. Dreher leave fallure to carry out The future of the How Re
tho pact public is eerlain only If. the Russian described as an Am-
obligations, including the return Western democracies determine crican agent, that Dreher con- the Soviet Union at once.
of `Dairen' and Port Arthur in that it shall be so. It is doomed Russia by his superiors at So- to Mr. Vishinsky that Lieutenant Press. J
"The Ambassador pointed out Manchuria to China. United fessed he was transferred from Vic means th If there is not a general readinasa
Dreher had gone to the Moscow constructed · shall not be brought
Ocials here suggest that Mos. Customs House at the request of down in ruin by the Reds," the cow is making publicity capital the Soviet Customs official in paper said,Reuter.
out of the incident four months connection with ahipments of later to offset a possible prestige Embassy
Farewell Tea
loss in 'the current furore over
two Russian
teachers America
Holding tional' tug of war.
from Odessa,
Luli Dreher had Diously been
stationed, and
who are dodging Soviet custody that the presence of agents of in an inte
the
MVD on the scene would in- an extraordinary Sun-dicate that, this Interview had Shanghal, August 10. day afternoon news conference, been arranged by the Soviet au- Mr. John M Cabot, American Mr. McDermott said that what Consul General in Shanghat, will actually, huppeasd was that the
tho third
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"moeling orders to return to the US, and tons. We should greatly rejoice between "E" and Dreher had had applied for an exit viss. 10, Germany could govern herself Mavor K.C. Wu' is also expect been arranged by the Soviet au- days before, and that in the cire in accordance with true domo- ed to be present, together with thorities and that the evidence eumstances the Embassy would cratic principles but we lay stress
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