Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-19
OF
ARREST FOUND in
SAN FRANCISCO

As an aftermath of the arrest and
release of the Russians who reached
here on the Korea Maru and in eN-
! PLANTATION of the causes that led to the
I complaint made to the police here and
fair has probably blown over news
/, published in the San. Francisco Chron-
! icle and received here today is of in
! terest The article says:
/ in a fuzzy fur oyercoat and a fine
/ frenzy. Count Michael Borzakovsky of
the imperial Russian government, De-
! partment of the Treasury, walked
down the gangplank of the Korea Ma
ru yesterday and filled the air with
| explosive conversation as he grasped
/ the hand OF Consul-General Artemi
! Vyyodtzew, San Francisco representa-.
| tive of the Gar.
Evidently vyrodtzew knew the
Count was coming, for there was
grand limousine awaiting to whisk his
excellency to the Russian Consulate,
Ithence to the st. Francis Hotel, and
there, for the first time, the passen-
ger learned the real facts In. what be-
gan as grand tragedy and wound up
as comedy, outstrinping the dream OF
the playwright. 49,
The Mysterious Package
THE Count had a red-sealed bundle
| that was locked in the hotel safe as
soon as he arrived. Some of his fell
low passengers say II Is securities con-
! signed to New York bank, to be
exchanged for coin of the American
Republic; others say il is diplomatic
=, correspondence for Washington i'm
possible to transmit via Europe be-
cause of submarine activities in the
! Atlantic. Whatever II is, it carries
/, two guarus, who constitute the prin-
cipal dramatic personae of the play.
These guards. M. Sorokine and NJ.
!. Kodnitsky, were arrested at Honolulu
+, as soon as the steamer touched the
pier, officers having been summoned
4 by wireless. The arrest was the
source of the Counts anger, and for It
the Russian Secret Service Depart
ment must answer to the Russian
Treasury Department. r..
Hist! Spies Aboard!
"lt appears that the Russian secret
service was advised that there we're
| two German spies on the Korea Maru,
who might steal ting Counts mystic
rious package.
by one of those strange kinks OF
| Russian governmental affairs two Sc
cret service men were detailed to the
ship and advised to watch the Count.
1 but they were not told that he had
also a personal bodyguard, to wit:
/ Sorokine and Kodnitsky So, sleuth-
ing around the ship, all the way from
J Hongkong to within A hundred miles
1of H6hofuid, they con cldded that for
ways that we're dark and tricks that
were vain the said Sofokine and Kod-
lnitsky were peculiar They watched
them watch the Counts bum
die, and the more they watched, the
wiser they grew, and then they hit
| the radio's-to Honolulu.
Nobody on the ship knew enough
Russian to tell what the Count said
when he heard commotion as soon
as they locked at Honolulu and he
saw his bodyguard pnt, in irons. The
1.-TWO members OF theI Russian secret
service understood him, however, and
they confessed afterwards that 1t was
the most pungent and picturesque
morsel of Russian language 1t had
ever been their pleasure to hear. , hey
left the ship at Honolulu to catch the
next ship back. but the passengers on
the Korea Maru say they are quite
/ certain that the two gentlemen will
never go back-if they can find some
other cline in which to make living
outside Of the profession of detecting.
It was understood here that all o.
1.-THE Russians proceeded on to; San
Francisco on the Korea Maru-