Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-19
EXPLANATION 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 eX-
| PlanatiCn of the causes that led to the
complaint made to the police here and
| further as showing that the whole af-
fair has probably blown over news
/ published in the San Francisco ChrOn-
| icle and received here today is Of in
teTest The article says:
| in a fuzzy fur oEercoat and fine
! frenzy. Count Michael Borzakovsky OF
/ the imperial Russian government, De-
paTtment 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 Artem1
Vyvodtzew. San Francisco representa-
tive of the Gar.
Evidently EyvodtZew knew the
Count was coming. for there was a
grand limousine awaiting to whisk his
eNcellency to the Russian Consulate,
thence 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. outstripping the dream OF
the playwright.
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 il is securities con-
signed to a New York bank, to be
exchanged for coin of the American
Republic; others say it is diplomatic
correspondence for Washington I'M
possible to transmit via. Europe be-
cause of submarine activities in the
Atlantic Whatever it is, it carries
two guards, who constitute the prin-
, cipal dramatic personae of the play.
These guards, NJ. Sorokine and M.
Kodnitsky, were arrested at Honolulu
as soon as the steamer touched the
pier, officers having been summoned
by wireless. The arrest was the
source of the Counts anger, and for 1t
the Russian Secret Service Depart
ment must answer to the Russian
Treasury Department.
Hist! Spies Aboard 81 Ill
1T appears that the Russian secret
service was advised that there were
two German spies on the Korea Maru,
who might steal the Counts mystic
rious package. Hs&
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,
but they were not told that he had
also a personal bodyguard. to wit:
Sorokine and Kodnitsky,g, So, sleuth-
ing around the ship. al the way from
Hongkong to within a hundred miles
of Honolulu, they concluded that for
ways that were dark and tricks that
were vain the said Sorokine and Kod-
pitsky 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 to Honolulu.
Nobody on the ship knew enough
Russian to tell what the Count SAID
when he heard a commotion as soon
as they locked at Honolulu and he
saw his bodyguard put in irons. The
two members of the Russian secret
service understood him, however, and
they confessed afterwards that it was
the most pungent and picturesque
morsel of Russian language it had
ever been their pleasure to hear. They
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 Cf the profession of detecting
It was understood here that all OF
the Russians proceeded on to San
Francisco on the Korea Maru.