SPIES PLEAD GUILTY
WORKING FOR BRITAIN
T§IAL IN RUSSIA
By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright Reed. 11 a.m. MOSCOW, Sunday. The trial has commenced of five Russians on charges of espionage on behalf of Britain, at the Supreme Military Court before Commissar Ulrich.
The accused are: Cyril and Vladimir Prove, sons of a former Moscow millionaire; Koropakoff, counsellor to the Soviet War Department Podreskoff and Nanoff. Vladimir Prove declared that he had received money from Mr. Charnock and added that when he desired to withdraw, Charnock threatened, saying: “Those who leave us become our enemies, but we have long hands with which to punish them." Both Vladimir and Cyril Prove pleaded guilty to participation in the espionage organisation supplying information to Britain.
Koropakoff pleaded guilty to giving secret information, but said he was caught in a trap. Podreskoff confesed to divulging information regarding aviation, and Nanoff pleaded not guilty.—-A. and N.Z.
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE
GREAT GROWTH IN PERSIA
Reed. 10.30 a.m. CALCUTTA, Sunday. Sir Sultan Ahmed, vice-chancellor of the Patna niversity, who has just returned from Persia, issues a warning about the growth of Russian influence in Persia.
He says the Persian markets are now flooded with Russian goods. British goods are noticeably absent. The Buzdab railway is being run at great financial loss, the Persians being led to suspect everything that is British. —Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 183, 24 October 1927, Page 11
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