Vladimir Valin, a well-known mitsician here, will shortly ridd to the population of Shanghai, as the Ja-Panese authorities have asked him to eave this country on the groun that he is a spy for the Soviet.
Valin is pretty well known to Tokyo and Yokohama foreigners as an accomplished musician and a good inger and graduate of the former St, Petersburg Conservatory of Music. Of recent years he has fall.
on hard times and was believed to be mentally affected. Not having funds or friends, he was for some months an inmate of a Tokyo municipal hospital for mental cases.
The charge that he is believed by the authorities to hi re been spying] in the interests of Moseow—he has been definitely accused of having mingled in secret with Japanese, Chinese and Koreans of pronounced radical tendencies—came as a shock to those who knew Rossi wns here have told the Police that Valin, far from being a Red was extremely White, but the ai thorities have seen no reason to rescind the order of deportation made out.
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