AN UTTER FORGERY

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1929, Page 3

AN UTTER FORGERY

CHARGES AGAINST U.S. SKNaTORS DISPROVED. (Unitod Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). WASHINGTON, January t a. A sensation has been caused here by the announcement that the Senate Committee has been secretly investigating documents here and abroad, pretending to show that Senators Borah and Norris received 100,000 dollars each from the Soviet Ambassador in Paris, and Senators. Borah and Norris, l.a Collette and Heflin also received 1,215,000 dollars from the Mexican Government. The Committee to-day rendered a unanimous declaration that the charges were absolutely false, and the document's an utter forgery. While the documents relative to the Mexican matter have been under investigation for over a year, the Russian aspect came as a complete surmise, and the Senate report indicated the existence of an elaborate system of such forged documents. Chairman Reed, of the Committee, described, the system as “ nefarious traffic,” adding that the whole matte) 1 would he amusing if it “ did not trifle with the reputations of distinguished Americans’ reputations, that if is to the interest of all America to hold above suspicion.”