Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-05-25
Grave Step Announced
To House Of Commons
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trade delegation. When the ot1lce
was entered, Miller was found burning
secret documents.
The premier gave details of how
men employed by the trade delega-
ton were also secret service agents
engaged in communicating informa-
ton and instructions from the red in
ternational and red trade unions to
communist organizations in England
and America, all of most recent date.
He quoted letters and documents
showing, as he said, that ARGOS, Ltd,
and the trade delegation had been
habitually used as a clearing house
for SubverSive correspondence dealing
with the hands off China" move
ment, and the distribution of COM
munist propaganda in the United
States.
The prime minister also disclosed
arrangements for training communist
agitatcrs on ARGOS ships with view
to their subsequent employment on
British ships. The evidence now in
the hands of the British authorities,
he said, proves that both military
espionage and SubverSive activities
throughout the British empire and
North and South America were dl-
rected and carried out from Soviet
House, and that no effective differ
entiation of duty was observed as be-
tween the employees of ARGOS and the
trade delegation.
He quoted from seized telegrams
showing that despite Moscow's dis
avowals, Michael Borodin was tenn
porarily acting as the soviet agent
in China, taking orders direct from
Moscow, and was being recommended
for appointment as the regular soviet
representative at Canton.
It was not always possible to
gather. from Premier Baldwin'S re-
marks whether. the documents quoted
were obtained in the ARGOS raid or
otherwise, but one telegram, dated as
late as April Is, was from the soviet
charge d'affaires in London to the
foreign commissiariat in Moscow, ex-
pressing disbelief that the London
embassy would be raided, but advising
as a precautionary measure the sus-
pension of sending secret documents
between Moscow and London.
WASHINGTON May "a. lP-Infor-
nation obtained by the British gov
ernmellt in it's raid on the soviet
Russian headquarters in London and
found to be of interest to officials
here, is understood to be in the pos
session of the Washington govern
ment.
The state department today de-
clined to comment on it's nature, but
it was understood that it concerned
activities in this country of secret
agents of soviet Russia. The number
and identity of the agents disclosed
was not revealed, but it was believed
that the department found no cause
for alarm in the material it has re-
ceived.
It was explained unofficially that
department of justice agents have for
some time completely identified and
kept close watch on all representatives
of Russia in this country and it was
believed that such documents as re-
ceived from London added little in
formation to that already held here.
MOSCOW, May a. (R)-In antici-
patton Of possible rupture of COM
mercial relations with Great Britain,
representative members of the soviet
press tonight insisted there would be
no recession on the part of the soviet
government. The voice of millions of
toilers, requiring their spokesn1en to
maintain an unyielding stand, it is
declared, must be regarded as i'm
perative.
1t is maintained that the result Of
such rupture would only mean the
putting into operation Of the soviet
commercial machinery in other coun-
tries to Great Britins detriment
The thousands of resolutions and
declarations, individual and collective,
which are said to be pouring into the
offices of the leading papers, it is
added, proclaim unequivocally that