SPY AGENTS SHOT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 877, 22 January 1930, Page 9

SPY AGENTS SHOT

GRIM WAR STORY FOUND IN POLAND SKELETONS IN A CELLAR BERLIN, Monday. A grim story of the war has come to light at Warsaw. According to the newspapers three skeletons that were recently discovered in a cellar have been identified by fragments of clothing as those of two Englishmen, Herbert George and Sidney Peel, and an Englishwoman, Miss Ruth Jameson, all members of the British Secret Service. They were sent to Warsaw in 1914, to discover the chief of the German spy organisation, who it was ascertained was a Russian priest, Chachlakoff, who was in constant communication with a Russian captain, Mjassojeboff, at Petrograd. This information they reported to Petrograd and London, after which they received a telegram ordering them to Petrograd, to report to Sukhomlinoff, the then Russian Minister of War. A military motor-car met them, after, which they disappeared. The newspapers states that they were betrayed to Mjassojeboff, who sent a fictitious telegram, and arranged that they should he immediately shot. Mjassojeboft’s treachery was later discovered, and he was shot for espionage on behalf of Germany in 1915.

Chachlakoff was arrested and released, but he was recently arrested in Poland on a charge of espionage. It is expected that the alleged murders will be referred to at his trial.