BOLSHEVIK WOMAN SPY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 3

BOLSHEVIK WOMAN SPY

ARRESTED ON BRITISH WARSHIP AND AFTERWARDS SHOT. ' Tho arrest of a Bolshevik woman spy while a truest on a British warship was narrated by Commander W. Hutchcr, R.N.R., who recently arrived in Liverpool in charge of the Cunard ship Phrycia. which has been, employed in rescuing Russian refugees from the Black Sea, ports. "At Yalta, on April 11,'' ho remarked to a "pally News'" Teprcaentfllive, "I was sitting iu my cabin when a lovely and chinning laiiy came in and begged to bo given a berth. I told her she vould havo to take pot luck with tho other refugees, and she agreed to do so. tilio said she would not be comiug aboard until 11 o'clock that night, as sho was dinincr on a British warship iii the harbour. "It so happened that I was dining on the same ship that evening, and halfway through the meal I saw the woman arrested. Tho man who denounced her was a Cossack known as 'the Whito Devil.' He is head of a Royalist secret order. The spy was a German of a cultured Rntl lefmed type, not moro than 2fi voars of age. She was quite calm and collected when 'the White Devil' arrested her. 'I know my penalty,' was her comment. 'I suppose lam to be shot.' I understand she was taken ashore and shot at midnight next night. The Cossuck told me that she had betrayed 7001) j officers, who had been shot and.thrown] into the sea."