Admits Working for Britain and Japan:
Treason Trial Nears Its Close Moscow, Mar. 5.
N amazing confession by Rakovsky, President of the Council of People's Commissar of the Ukraine and former Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, in the course of which he admitted spying for Britain and Japan, was the feature of the Soviet treason trial yesterday.
At the close of the confession, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court adjourned the proceedings until March 7, when the Public Prosecutor will probably sum up the case against the 21 accused, all of whom have now "confessed" to some of the charges against them. his evidence yesterday, Rakov: sky, who alleged that he was in turn a British Intelligence Officer and a Japanese spy, working against Soviet Russia, mentioned the names of several prominent figures in Britain with whom he said he had had dealings, including that of Lady Muriel Paget.
After his departure from Londor accused told the court, he severed relationship with the British Intelligence, but resumed it in 1934 through the intermediary of Lady Muriel Paget, whom he had previously met in London.
When informed of Rakovski
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