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GERMAN WOMAN
SPY.
DRAMATIC OLD BAILEY
EXPOSURE.
WORK FOR MOSCOW IN BRITAIN.
SIR WYNDHAM CHILDS" EVIDENCE.
There was a dramatic exposure
German woman spy.
|attend a conference of the League against Imperialism. When apply- ing for a passport she gave her namo Kate Guanfeldt, saying that she was born in Berlin and was of German nationality.
Sir Wyndham said that when Chiles's luggage was oxamined ou her last arrival in London invisible ink was found, together with cer Lain documents in which invisible ink was used. This was developed and there was no doubt she had been engaged in espionage against a friendly foreign Power.
Her luggage niso contained photo graphs taken in Manchester and other places, and negatives taken from her camera and since develop. at the Old Bailey recently of aed showed the identity of persons
with whom she had associated. The woman, who gave the name Mr. Percival Clarke: She is, in of Ethel Chiles and was described fact, a German subject, so if a
typist, aged 28, was charged order for deportation is made there with conspiring to obtain a British will be no difficulty in deporting passport by false pretences and with her presune not. refusing Answer questions. rea-
Mr. Clarke, addressing the court, sonably put by an officer acting in said that he thought a certain execution of the Aliens Order.
amount of credit ought to be given After she had been found guilty, to the astute police officer who, the prosecution took the unprece seeing the woman come into this dented step of calling General Sir country among British passengers Wyndham Childs, the Assistant in a place where he would not, in Wasion of the Metropolitan the ordinary way, be likely to look Police and head of the Special for undesirable aliens, discovered Branch of Scotland Yard, to give her and brought her to London. It details of her career. It was dis
was an extraordinarily smart piece closed that Chiles was a false name of work. and that she possessed documents in which invisible ink was awd that showed that she had been engaged in ospionage. During one of her visits to England she chotties with changed
another woman to outwit the police. Chiles two months' im- was sentenced prisonment in the second division and recommended for deportation.
It was learned that she has been ne of the most active of Moscow's agents in this country.
DOCTOR'S NAME FORGED.
WOMAN'S REFUSAL TO. ANSWER QUESTIONS.
The case was beard by Mr. Justice Finlay.
A good-looking young woman of rather pallid complexion, wearing a fawn coat and a black felt hat. drawn closely over her head, Chiles pleaded not guilty,
Mr. Percival Clarke, prosecuting, said that on March 16th on the arrival of the cross-Channel steater at Dover a detective saw Chiles produce a British passport. He asked her: Have you anything to establish that you are a fit person to hold a British passport?
German Visa.
Mr. Hutchinson, on the woman's behalf, said that as far as be un- derstood it there was no suggestion that she had done any hard to this country.
When she came here before it was to translate the report of the Bri- tish trade union delegates to Rus sia, and the translation she made was now being used in Germany.
She said that she knew she would not be allowed to come into this Country on the ordinary passport and she got a friend to obtain for her the passport which had been mentioned in the case. All she had done was to atland the conferences certain perfectly innocuous
of
“leagues.
Mr. Justice Finlay, in passing sentence, said:
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HOW MOSCOW. TRAINS PLOTTERS.
[Br DR. EDOUARD LUBOFF, Author of A Red Year."]
The trial and execution of Chi- nose agents in the employ of the being Soviet Embassy in Peking commented upon at Moscow a
gold-blooded murder," and fear is being expressed as to the fate of the Russians arrested in the course of the raid on the Embassy.
This fear is not unreasonable. Moscow may well fear retribution in view of the well-known abuse of diplomatic privileges by the Soviets and the systematic attempts in stir ap racial and class hatred in China, India, and the East gener ally.
That specially trusted members of the Communist International are attached to all Soviet establish. ments in foreign countries has been evident since 1920, bat in the East the procedure is somewhat differ- In order to supply Soviet ent. establishments in the East with well-trained propagandists, special colleges were opened at Motor In- Moscow and
stitute for Eastern Knowledge and the " Eastern Stadgrad Institute for prepare what the Pravda describes #3 newspaper
political workers" for employ -ment in Soviet Embassies
ether establishments in the East. full These workers are given course of Eastern languages and "a thorough knowledge of the living East," with a
to the usual course in revolution- intimate association," in addition ary training.
and
view to
These colleges do not even pretend to be institutions for the prepara- tion of Consular and Ambassadorial staffs, but are frankly admitted to beuniversities of political educa- tion." Their graduates are taken over by the Central Committee of the Communist l'acts not w
Soviet Government, and are then sent to the country for which they are prepared and are attached to the Soviet establishments.
Thus the Pravdu, dealing with the Moscow Institute, reports that the majority of the students, namely 60 per cent., were comman deered by the Central Committee qi the Communist Party, and most of the graduates, as well as those who were commandeered before gradua Lion, are now employed in our Soviet establishments in the capa city of highly useful workove, whose value is acknowledged by the chiefs of our foreign establish
This is a serious offence. As long as the passport system exists it is a matter of great conse quence that passports should only be issued to persons who are en- titled to them, and it is also a mutter great consequence that a person should not either alone or in conjunction with other per sons obtain passports by false pretences for use by persons who The are not entitled to them. only matter in what has been told me about you which I have to consider in passing sentence is that you are a German subject. And in order to indicate the kind of work done by these students, the He then passed sentence of two mouths' imprisonment in the second Pruede adds: Thanks to their well as to the improved conditions division and said he would recom-origin as workers and peasants, as mend Chile for deportation.
ments."
tors of others.”-
She said she had not but that she had luggage ut Victoria. The officer went to Vietoria with her and hastled her over to Inspector Frost, of Scotland Yard. Exempt
It may The recalled that when of training, these graduates are that she said her name was Ethel Chiles was originally charged at becoming a brilliant corps of lead- Chiles she gave no further pactica Bow-street Police Court the defenders in the Eastern zone, both as lars of herself. She said: "I can't tell you anything further than solicitor said: "I am not in practical workers and as instrav a position to say anything. I that."
would suggest that you make a de portation order and get rid of Her passport
regularly her." WILS issued. On February 28th a man went to Mesure. Thomas Cook's office at Ludgate-circus and handed It was in an application fora. forwarded to the Passport Office and a passport was sent to Mesars. Cock, for which a man called on March 1st. Two days later the same man took it back for a Ger
gave.
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The police pointed out that they did not know her nationality.
A MOSCOW AGENT.
BER ACQUAINTANCE
SOCIALISTS.
It is the duty of these pseudo. employees to keep in touch with all the revolutionary activities of the country to which they are sent and to keep Moscow informed of all that 18 going on. They work under a chief who is never the recognised chief of the Embassy or establish- WITHnent, and they are responsible only to him. When detected they appeal Ambassador Or to the
Chargé d'Affaires, and it is his business to convince the authorities that the and thus immune from agent was "on the list of em- ployees arrest or conviction.
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She pretended that her place of The sentence on the woman put residenec Rendlesham-road, a term to the activity of one of Clapton, and that she was born at the most dangerous spies the Secret Garston, Liverpool. Rendlesham-Service of this country has ever
By 1926, according to the same road was not her ordinary place of, had to deal with. residence and there was no record Not only is she an international authority, the Moscow Institute of anyone named Ethel Chiles be spy who has been guilty of military supplied 300 of these agents to the various establishments in China, Eng born at Garston at the time she espionage against a friendly nation,
but she is also a Bolshevik agent Japan, Persian, Alghanistan, Tur thring 1926 a The most important part of the who, under the cloak of the Work-key, and Egypt. fraud, said Mr. Clarke, was the era International Relief Fand, has further 138 were being trained, but youching for her propriety by Dr. been engaged in Bolshevik pro- only about 40 per cent. were com-
mandeered during the year. Gernid La Gately, of Bow-road, E.pagandn in this and other coun- Plans published last year show Dr. Gately never saw Chiles in his tries. life and never vouched for her. The Workers' International Rehut an attempt is to be made to scope Mr. St. John Hutchinson, who lief Fund was specifically mention-enlarge the geographical appeared for Chiles, called no evided in the Government Bluebook of the work of the institute, since published last year dealing with the the Soviets understand by the ence on her behalf.
seized Communist papers. Therein Lust the whole colonial and semi- it was stated with regard to this colonial world, ir, not only the Ox
Yellow but the Black Continent." organisation:
Her Visit To England. After Chiles had been found guilty Mr. Clarke called General Sir Wyndham Childs to give par- ticulare of Chiles's career.
Sir Wyndham said that her real Bame was Kate Gussfeldt, alias Blaser. She was a German subject aud, first came under the notice of the police in February 1994 when she landed under A condi- tional permit for 14 days to attend a conference at Manchester of the International
onal Workers Relief Com- mittee. She was also allowed in May 1824 to attend a conference st Glasgow of the Workers Inter national
ал
the intensifying
revolutionary This is the "Mezhrabkom." Ito cover this area the instituce "is was started under the cloak of study of the Black Continent, furst international charitable or of all North Africa, from Egypt ganisation of workers at the time and the Sudan, viá Tripoli, Tuni- of the Russian famine in 1921, sis, Algeria and Morocco up to the and has since dovated itself to
Kit provinces." propaganda, disguised as relief,
It is obvious that the legitimate in various countries, from Ire-openings for Soviet citizens in these land to China. The organisation countries of the Black Continent" exists ultimately for subversive are few and far between. It is ulso purposes, and has been hotly de-of interest that ut present the stud- nounced by the more moderate ents of this institute are taught, Socialist organisations.
among other languages, the dialects
are
It was on the platform at meet of Urdu, Bengali and Tamil, and League. She stayed at inga organised by the W.L.R. that one wonders what Soriet establish- Glasgow with a brother-in-law of this dangerous spy appeared. That ments are to be opened in the coun- Mrs. Helen Crawfurd. She left she was intimately acquainted with tries where these languages Glasgow for Southport to attend many of the prominent members of spoken. another conference and exchanged this organisation, who were pre- elothes with Mrs. Heleu Crawfurd aumably aware of her true char- to clude the police.
acter as testified to by Sir Wynd- Childs, who stated that
TREES AND LIGHTNING.
In October 1924 she was permit-ham ted to attend a conference of the on one occasion she exchanged Workers' International Relief clothing with Mre. Helen Craw- the secretary of the British furd, Fund. She was given an extension
section, while photographs. repro- to enable hor to stay here until in the Soviet. Hunia Pictoral Ring." Woodsmen have long given November 1924.
The police, however, discovered show her on the platform with Mr. that she was holding a spurious A. A. Puresll German passport forged in an office in a suburb of Berlin, and an order was issued by the Home Office that she was not to land again.
She is of powerful physique, and should the occasion have arisen would doubtless have been able to give an excellent secount of herself In a tussle with any man. Physical Atness was a gospel with her, and She was in Paris to September her development on these Maes wae 1925, but left to go to Quebec. In only equalled by her skill in the use February last she was in Brussels, of the camera and the employment where she arrived from Berlin to of secret writing.
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