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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1941

SECRETS OF THE SECRET TRIAL

A WOMAN WHO SPIED FOR REVENGE UNIVERSAL

THE BIGGEST SPY TRIAL OF THIS WAR ENDED WHEN ANNA WOLKOFF, BRITISH NA- TURALISED WHITE RUSSIAN, WAS SENTENCED AT THE OLD BAILEY TO TEN YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE, AND TYLER KENT, AMERICAN EM- BASSY CLERK, WAS GIVEN SEVEN YEARS. NOT MORE THAN TWENTY PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED INTO THE COURT DURING THE LONG TRIAL, BUT AT THE PASSING OF SENTENCE THE COURT WAS FILLED WITH SPECTATORS.

They did not find Anna Wolkoff dressed in fox furs, a beautiful spy. She is thirty-seven, with dark and greying hair, with a lined and pale face. Tyler Kent was handsome enough, though, with well-cut clothes and an extravagant air.

WEEK OF

PRAYER

Sir, I wonder If we might have the courtesy of your columns to bring to the notice of your many readers who may not have and pamphlets seen the posters dealing with the matter, that the Universal Week of Prayer begin on Monday, January and continue until Sunday, Jan- Each evening of this uary 12th.

will 6th,

week, brief services of prayer, half an Jasting approximately hour. will be held in St. John's Cathedral, at 5.30 pan.

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On Sunday. January 12th. combined service of all the non- Roman Churches of Hong Kong and Kowloon will be held in the English Methodist Church, Queon's Road East, Hong Kong. at 6.30

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p.m.

These services will be conduct-ro They were caught when the violence of their own princi- ples. It is not known whether

ed by clergymen of the various Anna tried to pass a let-they were paid by Germany. nen-Roman churches of the Col- all ter in code to Lord Haw

The believed they would defeatony, and we cordially invite

by their who believe in the power of pray- Haw, the traitor who Jews and Communism

efforts to send

our to, Germanyer, to unite with us and all broadcasts

tho Ger-

weapons against the country they fellow-Christians throughout

world, at any, Or all of these were living in.

times.

many.

from

It was a secret code and the let- to our dis- ter gave information {'īchi

The story of these two spies

but similar opposite in character in back-ground-is worthy of a Though their spy- boys' thriller. ing was not very effective, it was qfficient.

Hated Reds

Anna Wolkaff is the daughter of a Czarist admiral. Cut off from her country, she became violently anti-Jewish and anti-Communist. She began trying to pass informa- tion to Germany when that coun- try was anti-Russian.

Tyler Kent comes from a fine diplomatic family, but he translat- anti-Red and ed democracy into anti-Semitic principles.

The trial was in secret, but this is the background of the two spies. They did not meet until they became fellow-members of London club called "The Right Club."

Held in Secret Their trial was held in camera, behind the black-out glass-panell- ed doors of the court. The judge, Mr. Justice Tucker, spoke in most bitter and scathing tones of their conduct.

He first said:

turned to Kent and

Further steps towards unity will be taken when on Thursday the 9th and Sunday the 12th, all Chris- tian people are invited to share in the Communion Services which will follow immediately after the- Service of Prayer and the United Service, respectively.

the Further details concerning Universal Week of Prayer may be "The jury has found you guilty had from the posters displayed at of five offences of obtaining and the Star Ferries, Peak Tram sta- premises in communicating documents which tions, and business might be of use to the enemy for the city, to all of whom we are a purpose prejudicial to the safely grateful for this measure of pub-

licity. of the State.

It is, perhaps, scarcely neces- "They were highly confidential documents which you took from sary to stress the need of human penitence and divine intercession the American Embassy where you

at a moment in history, such as were employed. One of them you this. It is, therefore, with the stole.

confidence that we shall have "Thore la ona fact in youF

sympathetic understanding and (avour. The documents-highly

that we bring the confidential as they were did cooperation not relate to any naval or mi-matter to the consideration of all

who have the world's true

wel- tary movements."

fare a heart. Kent took his sentence quietly,

On behalf of the various non- without sign,

To the woman in the dock the judge's tone was severe and criti- cal; ——

The club had a badge-an eagle gripping a viper. The viper being Communism and Jewish blood.

The Right Club was formed by Captain A. H. M. Ramsay, M.P.,

There were in June 1939. rules or regulations and the main "You, a Russian subject in 1935, occupation of the members seems became a naturalised British sub- to have been listening to Captain ject. Ramsay running down munism and Jews.

"Your case is more serious than Kent's, because you attempted to send a letter in code to one Joyce no in Berlin,

were

Com-

into

Members

divided four degrees. "Warden" was the "fellow" was the highest, and lowest. Subscription decided the A war- degree of the member. den's entrance fee was £25.

Roman Churches of Hong Kong and Kowloon,

(sga) "J. L. WILSON.

HEALTH OF H.E.

Since Christmas Eve, His Ex- "At a time when this country cellency has been suffering from was fighting for her life and

a form of intermittent fever, existence, you sent a document which, though not of a to the traitor who broadcasts nature, has been sufficiently ex- from Germany. It is difficult to hausting for his medical advisers Imagine a more serious offence.

to order him a week's completo rest.

“Virus in Your System”

serious

Trips To Germany fact that you have undoubtedly Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock,

trips to Germany.

He was therefore reluctantly compelled to cancel his engage- "I take into consideration the meats on January 3rd to visit the Anna Wolkoff made some been led to do this by this anti-and to dine with the Sino-British In 1938 the Jewish -obsession on your part, Cultural Association, and was also stayed with Princess Liechten- which the Solicitor-General rightly unable to pay the further visit stein, and on this trip met Hen- described as a virus which had which he had planned to the Trade tein, ruler of Sudetenland. got into your system, and had dej

Exhibition. 9ha know the foremost Ger-stroyed your mental and moral man Fasciats, and her contacts! fibre. with Nazla encouraged her hate for the Jews.

"To some extent that may be

an excuse.

-Instead of returning to Govern- ment House on January 2. he is remaining at Fanling Lodge until January 6, when it is hoped that he will be able to return to Gov- ernment House.

Wolkoff was defended by Mr. Kent çame of an old Virginian family and hated European Jews. C. G. L. Du Cann, whose speech One night, at a banquet, Anna on her behalf lasted more than Wolkoff was introduced to Kent three hours.

She was shaken and. nervous 5th. by a well-known American society woman, Conversation turned on when judgment was passed.

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separated

Anna Wolkoff was sentenced because she betrayed the freedom Britain had given her.

He hopes to be able to go out with the Fanling Hunt on January

The cause of the fever is still malaria.

the Jewish raçe, and Kent, who And so they go to gaol two obscure, but it is definitely not had learned to speak Russian people from widely while at the United States Em-countries, who were brought tọ-.j bussy in Moscow, told her he hat-fgether by the same fanatical ideas. ed Jews just as she did.

They met frequently. Wolkoff's family, exiled and stripped of their class, kept a tea-room in Ken- sington. After their meetings at the Right Club the woman and Kent met at the tea-room several times, and exchanged their fanati- cal views.

She was educated in England, she knew the Duchess of Glouces ter when she was a young girl at school. She had been accepted in our casual social life.

"And Kent, from Virginia, had forgotten that his grandfather had subscribed to the Lincoln Admin- |istration.

B.F.R.D.C. GRANTS

The Board of Administrators of the British Fund for Reller of Distress in China recently made a aunt of $1,000 to the Hok, Shan Thaugh Wolkoff was a British

Traders' Association of Hong oltizen, sho abused the freedom

Kong for medical reller in the Hok Shan District, Kwangtung of her adopted State and agreed to work for Hitler, Kent, In a They betrayed their heritage; Province. The Board has also roved further grant of $9,000 privileged and diplomatic pool they plotted for a grievance. »!? tion, decided to passion confi- Their sentences were.

ary to June, 1941 18te: (a) 3800 per pic ), to Rev H A. denilai – dosumenta"; "to Anna but they are perhaps

apies Itenbuch Wolkoff so she could relay them that the death penalty f

mu Hang to" Germany.

was not in operation until a forte hey "bécame" spies chledy for night after icir arrests.

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