SOVIET SPY TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 5

SOVIET SPY TRIAL

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST BRITAIN STATE PROSECUTOR'S SPEECH. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September Ki. Tlio Moscow correspondent of the ‘ Daily Express,’ detailing the trial ol the spies, says that the State Prosecutor made a Jive-hour speech, which was mainly an indictment against England and Sir Austen Chamberlain’s Note, which is described as J’ull of lies, blackmail, and hypocrisy. He alleged that Britain had been sending whole consignments of spies to Ilussia, her final aim always being the blowing up ol tbe Baltic fleet in order to open tbo road to Leningrad. The information which the British spies Masters, Captain (name omitted), and Colonel Mciklejoliu asked Coyer and Klopushkin to obtain usually concerned the fleet. The spies were recruited Horn among the members of the Russian aristocracy, because a counter-revolution and espionage were inseparable. He further alleged that the Dutchman Coyer was entrusted with the most important work, because he chose the inlormers with great skill He worked on behalf o ftho British Mission to Moscow. This has since been explicitly denied. Professor Nikitin, a talkative Soviet poison gas expert, who liked his wife to have silk stockings, m return for which ho gave what ho said was harmless information, received a year’s imprisonment. WAR SCARE CAMPAIGN. LONDON, September 11. (Received September 15, at 1.50 a.in.) The Riga correspondent of ‘The Times ’ states that according to the Baltic Press a Norwegian diplomatist, on behalf of Hie British Government informed the Soviet that none ol the accused who were sentenced to death for spying worked for the British Government. The Soviet is exploiting the trial throughout Russia for a war scare campaign.—‘ The Times.’