CHARGES OF SPYING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 180, 20 October 1927, Page 1

CHARGES OF SPYING

BRITISH AGENTS IN RUSSIA

PRISONERS AWAIT TRIAL Bp Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Wednesday. The forthcoming trial of live Russians, who are alleged to have been employed on espionage work by the British Mission at Moscow, has been made the occasion of melodramatic charges against the mission The names of the accused men, who are stated to have confessed, are: Cyril and Vladimir Prove, sons of a former Moscow millionaire Koropakoff, counsellor to the Soviet War Department: Podreskoff and Nanoff. It is stated that spying has been going on, in which Sir Robert M. Hodgson (formerly British Agent in Russia), Mr. Preston (British Consul in Leningrad), and Mr. Edward Cliarnock (secretary of the British Mission), have been concerned. It is alsoMeclared lhat stolen secret plans and other documents were transmitted to Mr. Charnock in return for American dollars and English clothing. The chief agents, in giving information, are asserted to have been the Proves and Koropakoff. Mr. Charnock is at present in Loudon. He emphatically denies that any of the men arrested were in any way associated with the mission. He says: “We are naturally concerned about the arrests, as they mean the almost certain death of innoncent people.”—A. and N.Z.