These charges were proved to be utterly false. with the result that the Sóviet Government, on the demand of the British Government, paid an indemnity in respect of her false imprisonment to Mrs. Harding. In its reply note, the Soviet Government yined, as the plaintiff accuser, Marguerite Harrison.
Mr. Slade said that in 1920 Mrs.
"ding went to Russia as the accredited representative of—the "World" newspaper, of New York. She was arrested on arrival in Moscow,.the charges being those which the authór had repeated in the pesages complained of in the book—namely, espionage for the British Government and collaboration with Marguerite Harrison in intelligence work, She was condemned to death, and
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