A RED SPY VIENNA, Sept. 27. A woman calling herself Alexandra liomanowa and claiming to he a Russian Grand Duchess, who was arrested at Budapest, has been proved by the Hungarian poilce to he the widow of a Russian doctor named Kletsehevitsch. The widow, she is both clever and beautiful, was convicted in 1915 of espionage against Austria and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Afterwards she came to Vienna, where she was imprisoned for theft. After her release she served the Communist Government which was then in power in Budapest, doing duty as a hospital nurse and collecting war prisoners’ confidences She was able to do this as she speaks nine languages fluently. Since then she had organised an espionage service at Vienna for the Bolsheviks, and it is believed that her reports caused the Soviet Ministers recall recently. She had made several journeys to Moscow with a Soviet secret service agent. Balmovski.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1927, Page 2
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153Page 2 Advertisements Column 7 Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1927, Page 2
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