Was Trial Genuine?
DRUJELOWSKI CASE DOUBTS IN RUSSIA By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. RIGA. Wednesday. There is a considerable tendency to question the genuineness of Drujelowski's trial and his confessions. It is recalled that in other trials spies and counter-revolutionaries who were sentenced to death and reported to have been shot later turned up with new names and guises.—A. and N.Z. When Sergei l>rujelowski was sentenced to death the Soviet prosecutor made a new assertion, without giving the details, that Drujelowski was involved in a plot to blow up Westminster Abbey The main charges related to supposed forgery in an obscure room of a factory at Berlin, where it was alleged that the Zinovieff letter was forged by two of the Russian White Guards. Belgart and Gumanski. He received only £so, because the letter was prematurely published in a German newspaper. L>rujelowski was deported from Berl n tor forging documents on behalf of pet - sons concerned in the Bulgarian rising. He was then hounded from one countrr to another, till, sick and hungry, lie returned to Russia, though he was awarr of the fate that awaited him. 1: was alleged that he spied on behalf of Britain. Poland. Bulgaria. Germany and the Baltic States.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 July 1927, Page 1
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