The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-28
'BERL|AND TELLS
OF HIS ARREST
Russian Government Fails in FL
fort TO Confscatc Mcndci
Bciliss Memoirs.
NEWSPAPER MAN IMPRISONED
Police Refuse Passport, but Order
Him to Leave Kicv
Immediately.

| Especial Gable to Tho Tiines-Dispatch.1
London. December EFFORTS Berli.
and. one OF the staff OF the Interna-
tlonal News Services London bureau
who was arrested In Kiev on Monday
night In connection with tho attempt
! Of tho Russian government to con-
hscate the memoirs OF Arendci Beiliss
has been released. The news came
and himself.
| "kiev, December 27.--Laat Monday
| night seriously felt the effects OF the
fury or the autocratic action. which
my supposed possession OF the Bciliss
! memoirs created
1t seems the Russian police called
/ on Dr Bichovsky, head OF tho Jewish
! Hospital, stuated ut the Zaits Eff
Brick Works in Kiev. and piled 10 him
a series OF questions ~ to tho mean
/ ing OF numerous visits which |, in COM
! pany with +. Aslett Wray. was max
/ Ing to Bciliss. DIR. Bichovsky. who has
| charge OF tho Beiliss affairs replied
! the best he could, Incidentally being
/ forced TO disclose where We were stop
/ ping.
Learning Of the visit OF the police to
/ DR.. Blchovslty. Wray and deemed
/ 1t wise that one OF US should leave
/ at tho earliest possible moment for
/ London. taking with us the Beillss
/ !.
Guided. AS Wray already had re-
ccived back his passport from the po-
lice, and there was considerable doubt
J VIII ether rnino would be Forthcoming,
/ it was decided that Wray should go
/ on Monday night ne left. taking all
! the important papers with him. rc-
tanned some OF minor Importance, which
/ l hid in the bathroom OF my hotel
/ After seeing Wray off from the
station returned to the hotel AMI
went TO bed. About . o'clock Tuesday
morning was awakened by loud
/ knocking on nay door | opened il and
was confronted by q number OF spies
and uniformed police. They raided tho
! room and formed Il circle around me
| The otiicer Il charge said:
liz YOUR name Bcrl!aNd?'
YES / answered"
where !a your collcaguc?"
".Ivnere are the Bellies mcmoirs?
was then demanded.
IL don't know ] lied.
Then YOU are arrested, the officer
replied.
Refuses TO Answer.
81 asked him whether he had 4 war
rant for my arrest, and, II SO. what
was the nature OF the charge agains,
me. No reply was forthcoming, but
was Immediately seized and searched,
while everything In the room was ram
/ sacked
/ Finding nothing to help them. the
I officer in charge ordered his men to
! carry me out OF the hotel, as / refused
/ to walk on; myself. This they did
: carrying me into the street, where IL
/ was showing hard and the cold in
tense.
Il was taken to the Kicv prison.
where Beiiss spent two years and
half. and was thrown into cell.
There was again questioned az to
what had become OF tho Beiliss me-
moirs. l refused to answer. and also
declined to state the Whereabouts OF
Wray, thus preventing the police from
wiring 20 the frontier to arrest him.
After n time the police left me
alone in tho cell. which was absolute
~ dark, besides being excessively cold
and damp. | passed a slecpless night,
during which the wardens used the
foulest language 10 mo.
In the morning I was again Gues-
toned. and then told the police Wray
had left for Vienna, thus concentrating
their attention Oh an opposite from
tier. Whether they tried TO follow up
Wray, I don't know, but / hope Ito got
through safely
Later the police realized that their
from me had failed, and they were
me by refusing 10 give me my pass
mediateiy. rhts, am doing. Ny ar
rest has provoked tho utmost noig-
nation Of ali Russian newspapers