GERMAN ARRESTS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1929, Page 2

GERMAN ARRESTS

OF ALLEGED FORGERS. ; (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). BERLIN - , March 2. The police arrested Vladiminorloff it and Michael Sunarakoff helieved to '"'be members of a dangerous gang of V international document forgers duspeeted of forging notorious letters, aefusing Senators Borah and Norris of £y Government for, services rendered in '“'obtaining recognition of the Soviet United States. Detectives discov•i^ered two trunks full of documents in Russian together with a number of fA faked rubber aiid metal stamps- SunUvarakoff is an employee of the Soviet Embassy here. A majority of members of the cabiniiet have expressed themselveß opposed . 'to the admission of Trotsky, though Sno formal decision has been an- ’ ? 2'?aiounced. Herr Urbans, editor of “Polkuville” k.has received a telegram from Trotsky —“Situation is becoming acute. What is Germany’s answer. : Urbahns explains that the Turkish Government is making difficulties for Trotsky. • : _l >; AN ASSAULT. BERLIN, March 2. ! ; . Fiye men believed to be German ' followers i)f Trotsky, interviewed Dr. Landau editor of the Russian newspaper “Rul” in reference to an article which they alleged advocated the as sassi nation of Trotsky. The editor denied the construction placed on the article. The visitors thereupon violently assaulted him, clubbing him on the head and face They also smashed furniture and plant and disappeared. RUSSIAN FORGERS. BERLIN, March 3. The man Vladimir Orloff, whose arrest has • been cabled, was once one of< the Chiefs of the Secret Police of Tsarist, Russia. He is now a master spy, andis, seeking to aypnge the murdered Emperor ;;- while the man, Supiarakpff, was "'formerly ’ an, envoy of the Ukraine Soyiet Republic. „ Another of the' arrestees Gertrude Duemniler, a girl of bewitching beauty, - who was Orloff’s secretary. . Th©'police, raiding Orloff ’s country house at Scharidah, found'there a fine-ly-equipped chemical laboratory and an arsenal of > small arms. It is believed that many of the alleged > Soviet dooUment© published in Europe were manufactured in Orloff’s factory at fichandan. • , ; . The Berlin correspondent of the New York German newspaper “Knioker. Booker” tricked Sumarokoff into loaning- him the forgeries in sufficient time to have photographs of them taken, and he thus enabled the Berlin political police to arrest the gang.