The Washington times., 1925-06-03
FORGER KING
ARRESTED IN
BERLIN
Faxed Documents, Police Say,
Threatened Europe's Peace;
U. S. Poison Plot Fraud
BY S. d. WEYER
international News Service.

International News Service.
BERLIN, June 3.-The king of
the document takers" is under ar
rest, Berlin political police an
nounced today.
In the capture of the Russian,
Drushelovsky, the German opera
tives believe they have run down
the forger who for months has
been weaving a net of plots all
-eyer Europe, making a livelihood
by fostering race hatreds and ani4
mosities, and who has been sue
cessful, they believe in the over
throw of a cabinet by his machin-
ations.
McDOnaId's Fall Recalled.
1t is possible the mysterious trail
on the9 Zinoyiev letter, published
during the campaign which saw
the defeat of the Ramsay Mac
Donald cabinet in England, may be
cleared up by investigation of
Drushelovsly's operations.
This letter purported to be a
communication from the Soviet
Foreign Minister to Macdonald,
then British premier, suggesting
Macdonald could aid in spreading
communistic propaganda in Great
Britain. Official Moscow branded
the letter a forgery. Macdonald
made 1t the subject Of sharp note
to Russia.
Not world power but what has
been touched by the Vaccinations
~ the super-faker, the police as
serted.
Plots Against America.
The spurious documents brought
to light with DrusheIovsky's arrest
include:
An alleged order from the Soviet
foreign ministry to secret communist
spies in America announcing a re-
mittance OF $4,000 for the poison
ing OF Warren, candidate for United
States Attorney General.
An order foE>agents to take steps
toward the removal of strained re-
lations between Senator Borah and
President Coolidge"
Documents purporting to show
the Soviet plotted the Svett Kral
Cathedral catastrophe in Sofia, where
100 lives were lost.
In addition, the political police
charged, Drushelovsky, months ago,
offered the Soviet documents against
the 'tcapitalistic governments" but
they were rejected by the Soviet
embassy in Berlin.
This apparently turned him to
seeking reward for Soviet bstrayals.
In turn, he tried, the police said,
to sell forgeries to the allied mill
tary control commission, giving evi
dence or German secret armaments,
and to the Polish legation "evi-
dence" that the Stargard wreck in
German reds" thus freeing the
Poles Of financial responsibility.
His Trade FlOurishing.
For months the trade Of the
super-faker has been flourishing,
these refusals only serving to
turn him to efforts that seemed
more promising. He has been man
ufacturing evidence" against vari-
Gus governments and peddling
documents" to the embassies, lega-
tions and foreign correspondents,
the police charged
1t has been a case of dealing
with the highest bidder, when he
was fortunate. enough to interest
two or more prospective customers.
The alleged secret order dealing
with a supposed plot to poison War
rem was shown to the International
News Service correspondent.
1t seemed so palpably false that
it was unbelievable that anyone
could be taken in by it.
Yet similar document con-
Vinced the Bulgarian envoy to Ber-
lin that official Moscow planned
the horrible cathedral bombing in
Sofia and brought a few hundred
dollars to the forger
Others At Work.
The Bulgarian envoy If. turn
convinced Foreign Minister Stress.
mann and French diplomats that
the supposed Soviet communication
was genuine.
Political police, III making known
the lurid discoveries, said that
Drushelovsky's activities were bat
small part Of the sinister Wol k
Of capitalizing race and class ha-
tied carried On in Europe Dv a
hoard OF aGcl.s and takers, willing
to emhroil lat0:;s IN wars If il
means their personal gain,
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