THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11; 1949.-
SENSATIONAL FAR EAST SPY DISCLOSURES BRAATHENS
EX-HONG KONG BROKER LINKED Mai Tsai In
WITH SOVIET ESPIONAGE RING
Split Over Indonesia
finds itself?"
lican leaders.
very
Washington, February 10.
A former Hong Kong stock broker and newspapermon played an important part in the Russian super-spy organisation operating in Japan before the war, a U. 5. Army report revealed today. He was James M. Cox, who went to Tokyo os Reuters correspondent prior
to World War II,
Cox was associated with Branko de Voukelitch, another nowspopor corros-
pondent and top notch member of the ring.
The report sald Cox worked
in various Oriental cities prior to 1940.
then
July
killed in Tokyo police the
Unconfirmed Anid
bice
reports
F
man
Ambassador,
Singapore
London, February D.
The faw ngainat 'the mari keting of young girls In Singapore is being strength- end; the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur. Creach Jones, said in a Parliamentary ra- ply today.
also" 'bring
Provision is made to register all femala children not living with their natural parents, ortogal guardians, ho, added.
Stricter control of Immigra tion has led to decrease in the number of giris brought from China Into Bingapore,
"I have given attention to this matter, and the Gov- ernment of Singapore con- „tinues_ta_do...Averything...]... "Its-power-to¬eradicato "the"
́evil,” he rald-Reuter,
MISS AGNES SMEDLEY'S DENIAL
New York, February 10. Agnes. Smedley, Missouri- born writer and lecturer, today said the Army report's charge that she was a Soviet spy and agent is a "despicable He."
The Hague, February 9. The Dutch Cabinet is split
"I am not and never have been over Indonesia and may resign,
Soviet apy and agent for any country," said Miss Smedley in the Christian National news-
At that time an earlier and many Embassy, the British Em-
a statement issued to the press. papers "Nieuwe Haagsche
probably bigger ring was at bassy, the American and French
Miss Smedley accused General Courant" said' tonight.
work in Ching. But it was far Embassies and tho Dutch Lega-
Intelligence tion, the Japanese War Ministry,
MacArthur, whose Joku spectacular, hepaper linka Qucen
staff prepared.the-report- Juliana's reported postponement Referintele Moukotahy here at The CODA The perial Cabinet coMMOTY of a holiday visit to the Austrian port says: "He Was very close about any link, with Soviet es-household gossip, the press and
"sinister political motivations serious to the Reuters mun, James Mpionage in
Assle- Her lawyer, the former Tyrol with "the
Amerien. But one magazines: Dr. Sorge sorted them Cox, who had ready access to the
tant United States Attorney- de- situation in which our country British Embassy before he jump-name in the report appears rather out.
Rogge. General, O, John obscurely in still secret testimony
Havas Correspondent
the Army and nation in general manded that the Army issue "an The paper said Cabiriet dis-ed from a window at Kempeital taken. Inst year at the spy hear-
(police) headquarters in
"Often he asked the opinions enough for half a year. agreement exists on:
Immediata...retraction of the ic- Ings of the U.S. House Un-Ameri-
of Ozaki (Hozumf) and Miyagi | 1940."
Back on: May 20, 1941, he responsible and false charges." 1. The attitude to be adopted Cox was
LUX
the jump can Activities Commillec. towards the. Security Council's
Mr. Rogge said: "I any official Japan released only the barest (otoko). Having come to a con- "flashed the urgent warning that from
ing and the clusion, usually be would test the Reichswehr wollt consens responsible for the charges will resolution. This, adopted las window
details about tire he had been mistrials and convictions of 17 people by conversations with the Ger~] trate from 170 to 180 divisions on waive immunity, we will estab- month, called for an immediate
Major- the Soviel border, and on June 20 ish, to the satisfaction of nny end to the hostilities in Indo-MG
at the time. The U.S. Army
General, and the Military, Air would attack along the whole American court. nesia, where the Dutch: took "po-treated by Japanese police seek found out about them after pc-
and Jury, that investigate reports ing to
and Naval Attaches of the Em-frontier. The main direction of the charges are false and mall- that
bassy. Cox was
the drive would be toward Mos- jelous. gathering information cupation forces moved in.
"He had a high respect for their cow." The attack actually come
Miss Bmodley, who spent (12) judgments since they were pro- on June 22.
years in China and served as a charged with fessional soldiers
On July 2, 1941, Immediately
speelal wartime correspondent) evaluating just such information after an Imperial Council meet-
for the Manchester Guardian for the guidance of the German ing. Sorge rushed word to Mos-
In Chinn from 1938 to 1941, Government."
cow that the Japanese Govern-
wald in a press conference that Another top notch member meat "had decided to rush South-
Branko
de Voukelitch. Award into French Indo-China and
the Japanese had printed the was
same charges "years ago, newspaper correspondent who had solze various bases."
She said her name had been nccess to the American, British
Move South
"death lists" of on one of the and French Embassies and often
In late July and early August, American and other had semi-official views from cll-
correspon- he estimated contacts.
the Japanese had dents and radio commentators in Apparently the Army report is plomatic tipped
De Voukelitch was a Yugs-mobiilsed 1,000,000 new men and China drawn up by the Japanese Intended to warn the U.S. to be
day who became correspondent most had been sent to China or secret police. She said the Jep- Japan on the look-out for spying here.
A few for says, of U.S. em-
French magazine and farther South-only
to anose press before the war had Beware, it
"cover."
Manchuria. Yugoslav paper, an
called her a "notorious Russian It probably was, the best and ployees who even show sympathy
the master spy" and that everyone who had As Augual closed, gard this as significant because boldent ring in all history. The with the Communist Party.
Later he was with the French "perly
spy learned the Germon Embassy defended China
Japan sympathy is
against News Agency, Hevas. that is the deadline set by the Army guys 80 in
32,000-word says that
Ozaki was an author and ex- had lost hope that Japan would was attacked. * United Nations Security Council report on what made it alek. Gen- enough to develop a high class
pertan
Chinese affairs, Ho go to war against Russia that Hence, she said, it was not for a definite Dutch-Indonesian eral Douglas MacArthur sent the agent and spy."
for the Tokyo Ash year.
surprising that her name Still at large. It says, are workeri agreement to establish an Interim report over from Tokyo.
Since Ozaki was so close to peared on the files of the Jap-. American-born Mies Smeday Shimbun, He had gone to col- Federal Government.-Reuter.
Stein, a German flege with men who rose to post- Konoye, the key man in the anese secrat police "which are Quenther
now in MacArthur's hands." who now may be an Americanlons of importance in the Jap-negotiations, Sorge got "full and
accurate" information on US- United Press. and who was a temporary but anese Government.
member" of the He was smart enough himsek Japanese diplomatic sparring "top-leval Tokyo ring from 1936 to 1938 to predict Japan's eventual de- books on feat at the height of her greatest Each has written China. "Who's Who" says they military successes, get mall in New York City.
lice action" In December, the re- lease of the Republican leaders outside of his regular newspaper
Agnes Smedley and the restoration of som of
duties.
Many of the minor figures in their authority.
Cox went to Japan from Shang- the ring were released as polttical 2. The release of the Repub- hal where he had been news prisoners. The Army report in
dientes that perhaps that would 3. The elimination of the so-editor for Reuters,
The sensational story tells of not happen if the Americans had called "Interim period"
ngain. At that the establishment of the United Russian spy ring that looted the it to do ever
Japanese Cabinet and German time, it said, few people had the Embassy In Tokyo of secrets that idea that "a Soviet spy who had
worked against
the Japanese helped turn the tide of war.
might later work against the United States.
before
en In.
States of Indonesia.
Meanwhile, a debate
Dutch Second doncala. In the Chamber wit suddenly post. paned tonight. Political quar tors here bellove
Best In History
The the Cabinet
is facing a dilemma if not a criple over Far Eastern policy The debate was postponed un- 13 February 15. Observers re-
Left Wing Labour MP To Tour U.S.
Presi
"1 am
Mr.
to
ta
make in the
super-network
off Russia that Germany would
attack hor and would not.
that
are
ת
Most of the ringleaders tleatl. The muster spy wa German. Dr. Richard Sorge. His Brst Heutenant was a Japaneso traitor, Ozaki Hozumi, Both hid their spying under the cloak of newspaper assignments. They were hanged.
spy
emment.
An Accident
And
man
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Strategic Spot
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Ap.
By October 18, Borge had "his final Tober passed along
a minor and unwilling spy, may conclusions that the Japanese be living in Russia. He was one had decided to move South. And | of those freed by the Americans, that there now was no Nerious Apparently there were other danger of an attack by the rings operating Independently, Kwantung Army across the Bl
Now An MP berian frontler.'
He felt, the Army
says, that mission was completed and drafted suggestion that he be recalled to Russia. Klausan talk- ed him out of sending it and:
Three days later Sorge and Klausen were under arrest."
▸
The report says somebody in the Sorge ring squealed on Na. kanlahi. Ko, who led a Rumelan The polica apy ring in China. picked him up In 'Shanghai. Ho was tried and got a life sen- tento. Lot
out
the prison by Americans, Nakanishi ran in last It happened like this:
April's elections and became one Ring members were supposed to of the Communist members of the have no dealings with Japanese Japanese Parliament
Mrs Kitabayashi And Ito Ritsu is a member of Communists.
of the (Tomo) evidently followed orders. the Central Committee
Communist Ito Ritsu thought Party-one of the four or five top
Japan.
The Betrayal
But, the report' anys, remnants of the network still may be busy about whom too little is known." The report says Stein is "a nan
A highly placed friend gol In world cupltais. It says #11
Ozaki lined up as adviser to the London, February 10.
American author, Agnes Smedley, Konoye's Friend
Cabinet on Chinese affairs. He Mr. Richard Crossman. lead-
operated in Shanghal and "is a Mics Smedley is described as had access to State papers and ink-
Parliamentary_left wing Labour critic of the Foreign Se- and agent of the Soviet Gov-the go-between who first brought the ears of key officials.
Sorge and Ozaki Hozumi, his Later, he had an almost equally cretary,
Ernest Bevin's This "Case study In inter-right-hand man, together. That strategic spot with the South Palestine policy, will leave for national espionage in the Für was in China, where they operat-Manchurian Railway, which was the United States on Friday on East" reads like a serlai from ed for a time, around 1829 to 1932 more of a political empire then u
four weeks visit,
Hollywood. It Øver hns the and 1933.
business firm. Mr. Crossman kopes meet "erime does not pay" ending with Sorge was a professional Ger-
Dr. Sorge would take his in- President Truman and Mr. Dean novel twist:
118 Communist pusing
a formation, weigh it, check it and Acheson, the U.S., Secretary of
swaggering Nazi He used then write his despatches to State, whom he met when ser-
newspaper assignment as a cover, Moscow. Some went out by ving on the Anglo-American
German
microfilm by The man who unknowingly be and the
Embassy in
radio, some on Palestine Commission,
courier to Shanghai and some to Com
trayed the spy chain now is one Tokyo us if he owned it. not going
Hozumi was another nows the Soviet Embassy. of Japan's top Communists. speeches about Palestine
Do Voukellich's home was used The report says "The Japanese papermon and writer. United States, he told
she had turned against Commun-Reds in Reuter smashed the ring almost by acel-same adviser to the Cabinet and as a photographic laboratory.
A German, Max Klausen, was tonight, adding that he expects dent, just before Pearl Harbour confidant of the "brain trust" of
He was consult the radio operator. He had been Prince Konoye. Bituation with American per- "By then I had plaked afted on the highest secrets, and sent in the spy ring with Sorge and
Ozaki the decret-it-wanted-most-as-them-on-to Moscow.
There were no Russians in the The report says it was he who eurance that Japan would not
That was a rule. Mostly went to-Harbin in 1920, met the attack Rumla. That let the Rede ring.
agent, Gloemberg rush troops across Siberia to there were Japanese and a few chict Soviet
Ot, and installed a radio. halt the German drive on Moa- Germans.
"An American Vice-Consul, cow.
Tycho L, Lillestrøm," the re- Hallowed Gloemberg саул. Ott to hao two rooms, of his residence, and It was there that Klausen set up his Illegal radio
Klausen got a life sentence. The There is some rarion - to- belleve that Lillestrom also report indicates he and his wife.
to his
that he will discuss the Palestine
-sonalities-during-his-visit.
The chief purpose of Mr.
Crossman's visit s to study. American labour conditions and in particular the motor-car in- dustry in the United States.-- Reuter.
NO NEUTRALITY FOR BRITAIN
in
1947 J
Information from the ring was
of "Incalculable" value and cost almost nothing.
He br-
port
ret.
Three of the Japanese lived in Los Angeles for years.
The report goes on: Miyagi Yotoko was an artist
and key Akiyama Koji was a Three Japanese who used to man. live in America were in the ring, iranslator and the only member
of the gang in it for one at the top level.
money. Mrs. The ring knew the trend of Kitabnyashi Tomo was a dress- Japanese-American
supplied Information negotiations maker and the thread that un- Foreign Secretary. Mr.In the critical summer and au-ravelled the whole network. Ernest Bovin, today rejected 4 tuma of 1941. It had contact suggestion that Britain refuse to with Japan's Premier, Prince promise to go to war if hostilities Korioye.
The
London, February 9,
break out between the United
States and Russia.
Consul Involved
Almost Tho "Perfect Crime"
quest."
Helping The Cause
The State Department register How they and the rest of the says. T. Leonard Lillestrom was explonage crow worked, and were at Harbin starting in 1922, be-. betrayed by a Communist, Ito came Vice-Consul in 1928, maved to Scotland in 1935 and died on Ritsu, is a tale of intrigue, ro duty in Mexico in 1943. mance, possibia torture and
In Tokyo, Sorge was under death. It is a thriller of blinking lights, orders to find out about Japan's military force, Japanese-German
A Labour Member of Parlia But there is no hint that it got nent, Ronald Chamberlain, ask- a tip on the Pearl Harbour rald. ed Mr. Bevin whether he could Some second-hand Information Britain leaked from the American Em- give an assurance that xvill not enter into negotiations bassy in Tokyo, under the Atlantie Pact by which An American diplomat at Har and hidden radios never set up in relations, policy toward China, re- Britain automatically would go bin, Manchuria, Vice-Consul the same spot twice. It involves to the ride of the United States L Lilliestrom, let two Soviet
false passports, microfilms passed
sed lations with the U.S. and Britain, in case of a Soviet-American | agents stay at his home and one in cigarette packa, and money/ine, role of the army in political affairs, Industrial development
war, Mr. Bevin replied curtly. set up an illegal radio station, the changing hands between shadowy and, above all, whether Japan in-
"No."Unlted Press.
report says. That was in 1929.
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too.
tended to attack Russia.
Things like troop mevements
Some of the answers came la and secret weapons were seconda ary details, although the ring with the help of people like a gathered in plenty of them, to a doctor passing along news from soldier providing military plaus, Sorge, the report said, was able to keep Russia "fully informed patients, a seamster picking up on Japanese military and indus-Sorge dealt only with the high- trial capabilities and intentimis Ber strata of the spy ring... Ozaki from 1933 to 1941. The Red and Miyagi raa minor rings that Army always know the status of fed_the_top_circies.”
èurrent Japanese war plans, and
There are some parallels to tho
sould make their own plans dad testimony obtained by the US. dispositions accordingly."
It was a network with "per fect sources", and almost got oway with the "perfect crime."
A Philanderor
2. While serving his Moscow mas- ters, Sorgo cultivated the Ger- man Ambassador In Tokyo, and His staff so well they told him almost anything. asked his ad- vice, and let him see, söcret papers. He had a camera handy. Eventually he joined the, staff as Press Attache
within rings; infit Congressional spy probers-rings infiltration into high places In Government, couriers, microlims, furtive meetings.
Some of theilttle people! In. 'the Tokyo ring, the Army, says, did not even know for whom they wore working. They know only that they were helping "the cause."" They committed "treason without hesitation."
Japanese Plans And the results were things. like these:
In 1939, Sorgo reported the Japanese had decided they must mechanise, all their foress and develop armoured divisions. F He was tall, heavy arrogant Early in 1949, he passed along and ruthless, a hard drinkge and "d rollable account of Japáncso a philanderer. Ho had one wife output of munitions, aircraft and in-Russia and another school motorcars along teacher, in the US the factories makes these mater The report fells of His methods: lagan well as iron and steel ****After, gathering together facto, 4. In "August, 1941, he reported opinions and petimalangsrom, a Japan had enough oil in storage wide range of sources,, lie: Gore të falt the Navy, to Yours/And
Dr. Borgd had come to Japan * aftag, getting a foreign, corress pondent's assignment from the Frankfurter Zietung and three ather paper
she was a spy.
to
"Can it be," the report asks, that the Japan Communist Party and the Soviets do not know who
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