SHOT AS SPIES
ALLEGED BRITISH AGENTS END OF SOVIET TRIAL. Tress Association—By 'telegraph—Copyright. ' LONDON, September 13. (Received September 14, at 10 a.m.) The ‘Central Nows’ correspondent at Leningrad states that nine supposed British spies were summarily shot immediately after their trial, including Coyer, who was described as the master spy who, it is alleged, confessed saying: “I confess, not to save my own life, but to let everybody know the clinics of my masters ’1 he British Intelligence Service.” fA message received on September S stated;—Twenty-six alleged British spies, of whom four aro women, are being tried on a charge oi'_ obtaining information for the British Secret Service. Coyer, one of the accused, who was formerly a Tsarist secret agent, is alleged to have confessed. Ho said that the British Intelligence Service had ordered him to remain in Leningrad until 1927, as British troops would occupy it.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 9
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147SHOT AS SPIES Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 9
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