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SOVIET METHODS.

THURSDAY,

"ATLANTIC EPIC.

TWO SAILORS AND A. 770 WOMAN DROWNED.

CALIFORNIA TRAGEDY.

JULY 14, 1927.

FRENCH POLITICS.

COMMUNIST MOTION REJECTED.

Paris, July 13. The threat to the existence "of {{ the Poincare Cabinet has been Glasgow.-A deed of great ended by the Chamber, by 356 to heroism, with a tragic sequel, is 171 votes, rejecting a Communist reported in a wireless message re- ceived in Glasgow from the An- motion which would have in- chor liner California, on its way creased by about £6,000,000 the from New York to the Clyde.

expenditure proposed by the West of Ireland about noon, when Government for increasing the a woman passenger slipped over-salaries of civil servants. board, and two sailors jumped

The vessel was about 600 miles

Sir Robert Hodgson, British Diplomatic representative in Mos cow before the recent break, has issued the following statement:

Allegations emanating from Moscow of illicit practices by members of the British. Mission in Moscow, which have recently been repeated in the British Press, cannot be allowed to pass without challenge. They are contained, into the sea in an effort to save Single-Chamber Constituencies. So far, in three pronouncements,

The Senate by 213 to 67 has The California was travelling adopted a Bili abolishing propor- namely, a speech by M. Rykoff, an oficial communique from the So-at such a speed that the three tional representation, and sub- viet Government, and report persons in the sea were soon far stituting the system of single- printed in the evening newspapers astern, and before a boat could chamber constituencies for the of June 10, announcing the exceu-e lowered, or the vessel put about Chamber.-Reuter." tion in Moscow of 20 persons, of to go to their rescue, the woman whom four are stated to have been and the two sallers had disap- spies in British employ.

peared, and all three were drown- ed.

M. Rykoff quotes in full a letter addressed by Mr. Preston in Len- ingard so long ago as 1924 to Mr. Jerram, a member of the staff of

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RUSSIAN VENDETTA.

· Rescue Attempt.

The woman passenger was a

HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS. the British Mission in Moscow. Mrs. Louisa Traynor, who was The letter ulludes to a request re-travelling from America to visiti

Warsaw, July 13. ceived from the Department of her mother and father, Mr. and Refugees from Russia report Overseas Trade by Mr. Peters, ask- Mrs. Rodger, who live in Galloway- that the Soviet Government has Ing for information regarding the terrace. Kirkintilloch, Dumbarton-caused the arrest of hundreds of possibilities for seiling fine chemi-hire.

people at Kiek in connexion with caly" in Russia. Mr. Preston, The men who gave their lives an alleged counter-revolutionary not understanding the expression in the attempt at rescue were plot, including a number of officers "fine chemicals," asks Mr. Jerram Alister Gilchrist, an able seaman. of the Ukrainian ariny,

to explain it to him. He adds that he is afraid of employing "Russian birds" for collecting the informa. tion demanded by the Department of Overseas Trade, as he fears that they may expose themselves to Being "hanged, drawn and quarter- ed by the State Political Depart- ment for spying." In other words, Mr. Preston anticipates that, should he ask, Russians to help him in ob taining information on what is ob- viously a perfectly innocent mutter, they are liable to be treated as spies and summarily executed.

The question arises: Were Mr. Preston's apprehensions justified? M. RykoT proceeds to show, by the xamples which he quotes of G. P. J. (Political Police) justice, that they were. He mentions the case of "Pashkoff," a former officer of the Kolchak army, and one Filin, shot for supplying information on military matters to Mr. Charnock, of the British Mission.

at Omisk in Kolchak's time had

The Facts About Peshkoff. Peshkoff who, incidentally, was never an officer in the Kolchak Army, but had civilian employment been an officer in the Imperial Rus- sian Navy. On the arrival of the British Mission in Moscow in 1921 he was put into contact with me by a woman of the name of Dahl, who was a secret agent of the G. P. U and had been in Siberia, in the Kolchak time. Temporary employment was given to him by the representative of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in Mos- cow. Shortly afterwards he was arrested, together with his wife and a Jarge number of other persons, on a charge of having organized, under my instructions, a counter-revolutionary movement in Siberin. I sought the assis- tance of M. Karakhan, who most courteously promised to look into the matter,

and John Mclsane, an ordinary seaman, both Glasgow men. One lived in Partick and the other in the Langside district of the city.

An old and deaf man charged at Bow-street with begging, had in his possession 25 £1 notes, 67 ten- shilling notes und 82 shillings in silver. He was fined £5.

They also report that M. Gris- Kow, head of the Ukrainian Com- munist party, has declared that all those who have been arrested will be sentenced to death.- Reuter.

and a half years the Mission was in Moscow and then only in cont pany. On no occasion did he dis-are cuss military matters with him.

CHINA'S STRONG PROTEST.

(Continued from Pago 1.)

hundreds of miles from Shanghai, it is intended to with- It is only now that the nature of draw the whole or part of the Force, Sir the charge on which he was shot Shanghai Defence is revealed.

Austen Chamberlain referred to With the accusations launched the answer he gave on July 6, by the Moscow communique it is regarding the Indian Brigade's re- unnecessary to deal at length. Al- turp, and added that two batteries legations that Mr. Vice-Consul and certain ancillary units attach- Wayte was involved in plots to blowed to the Indian Brigade. were also up the Kremlin and the Grand being withdrawn. Theatre, &c., are so grotesquely absurd that no good purpose The Brigade was only sent be- would be served by attempting to cause it could arrive quickly, It disprove them. They are on a par was never intended to maintain it the British from time to time by inforcements on July 6, he was with other charges made against there. When he mentioned re the Soviet Press of having organiz. referring to troops which ware ed the Filudski coup d'etat in Po-already in Shanghal apart from overthrow of the the Indian Brigade. land and the

As regards sickness among the Lithuanian Government, of at- tempting the destruction of the troops, Sir Austen said the Gov- Leningrad Water Works, of plan-ernment had foreseen the difficul- ning to seize the islands of Dago ties of elimate, and the authorities and Desel in the Baltic, conspiring on the spot had taken every to murder Reza Shah, and so on precaution possible.-Reuter. ad infinitum.

Some of the Victims.

have been shot by the Political The list of persons reported le Police on June 9 demands more de- tailed comment.

was

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

Mr. T. V. Soong Returns to Hankow.

Hankow, July 13. Vladimir Yvreinoff was in the Mr. T. V. Soong returned од Imperial Russian Diplomatic Ser- Tuesday afternoon aboard a Bri

and

stationed

steamer attish

from Shanghai. The whole charge was shown vice

He lived in England Troops continue to proceed down' to be a mare's nest. Toshkoff Teheran.

it is rumoured that and the other persona involved for some time after the war, but river, while were set at liberty and nothing returned to Russia about 1923. troops from Canton are approach- further was heard of the matter. He was given a post in the State Ing Nanchang-Reuter.

He was in Bank in Moscow. Peshkoff returned to his employ-

Successful Counter Attack. ment with the C.P.R., and, being touch with the British Mission, which he visited very occasional-

Shanghai, July 18, was most useful in organizing the not to encourage relations with fu indicate that Chiang Kai-shek's Foreign reports from Hsuchow- firm's office. He remained in their employ till May, 1925, when him, since his antecedents must forces successfully counter-attack- inevitably render him suspect to ed and recovered ground as far as he again was arrested. nature of the charge against him the Soviet authorities. It is abLincheng-Reuter has never transpired until now,olutely untrue that he acted as though it was generally suspected a spy for the British Mission.

Of Lycheff nothing is known.

a capable and hard-working man, I was particularly careful

The

to be what Rykoff declares it to Mr. Charnock has no one of the have been-espionage for the name among his acquaintances. benefit of Great Britain,

Tsingtan Penèuful.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

The following are the replies to to-day's questions:---

Tsingtao, July 13. The present situation apparently Of "ex-Captain Korobenko" no- favours the North. Tsingtao is. The accomplices whom M.

thing is known. I was acquaint-perfectly peaceful and the situa Rykoff mentions were friends of

tion is much easier.-Reuter, Peshkoff for whom,,he had founded in Siberia with an officer of a employment in the C. P. R. office. very similar name whom I met once in the house of a mutual It stands to reason that, after the friend in Moscow. I never saw Dahl affair, (1) Peshkoff was the him again.. In fact, the officer In last person in Russia who Was question refused under any con- likely to work as a spy for Great dition to renew his acquaintance: Britain; and (2) the last person

know no one of the name of to whom I was likely to apply for Mazurenko. information. In fact, though the

Allusions have been made, and acquaintance between the British doubtless will again, to so-called Mission and Pehkoff was main-confessions" made by persons tained, it was deliberately con- arrested by the State Political De- lined to a minimum in order to

partment. These "confessions" diminish the risks of criminal must be treated with the gravest significance being attributed to it. mistrust, for the G.P.U. officials The accusation quoted by Mhabitually endeavour to wring ad- Rykoff that Peshkoff and his missions from their victims by friend were engaged in espionage threats and by promising to re- work is utterly and entirely with-lease them on condition they sign out foundation.

atatements dictated to them. Similarly, they employ the most

The Case of Filin.

(a) 92.850.090 miles : lb) 238,800 miles, 2. (n) Approxkentely one million times, the sizo of the earth; (b) Approximately one quarter the size of the earth. 3, Arnhle, Hebrew,

syrine, and Ethiopic. 4. The Aryan family. 5. "Ah my hente Martine. The arterie convey the blood from the heart to all parts of the body. The veine convey the blood to the heart. 7. The Oxford Library, restored by Sir Thomas Dudley in 1507. 8. John Bunyan (1828-1084), 9. The Parliament sitting from

Rocks opposite to ene nreiber in Africa, and

Vin. 13. A statue of Ventus, now in the

sculptor. 12. San of Pepin d'Heristal. Crush- ed to Herseen armies. In 732. 13. A satire of Dr. Arbuthnot (1875-1725), representing the Englishman na a bluff. bull-headed farmer.

November 2, 1010, to April 20. 1063. 10. Spain at the entrance to the Strails of Gibral-

Louvre, of wonderful beauty by unknown

in the House of Lorda, 115, Piccadila Hall, shin chief dept of piccadill ince, mueir in vogne during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Called Picondilly Ince on recount of te litt spent points (* diininutive of pics; n pike-ar apear),

Even more fantastic is the case abominable measures of compul-14A rushlon on the Lord Chancellor's peat of Filin. He was a young officersion to induce people to act as in the Red Army whose wife was their agenta. Among other cases a friend from childhood of. Mrs. of the kind may be mentioned that Charnock. He had a post imme- of Louise Koch, a maidservant of Jutely under the Revolutionary the British Mission, who, on the Military Council and in that capau premises of the Commissariat for city was doubtless in a position Foreign Affairs, was threatened to procure information on matters with life-imprisonment unless she of military importance. It was acted as informer on me, and with of interest and rivalry among wo precisely for this reason that Mr. death if she revealed to me the mon at Budapest that they are Charnock kept away from him and fact that she had been approach-barred from card clubs by an off- avoided any dealings with him ed. It is unnecessary to demon-sial decree. The decree was prompted by a free-for-all fight in" which might conceivably compro-strate that the informations sup which two prominent women ex- mise him. He mot him in all some plled by agents recruited in this changed blows over an error in four or five times during the five manner is entirely valueless.

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