Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — RAID SOVIET OFFICE IN N. Y. [ARTICLE]

RAID SOVIET OFFICE IN N. Y.

Detectives Take Papers and Serve Subponeaa on Bolshevik Agents. New York, June 13. —Business was “Interrupted” at the headquarters of the Russia soviet bureau when a squad of detectives invaded the offices, took possession of all the records and other papers nnd served subpoenas on A. K. S. Martens, head of the soviet embassy, npd four of his assistants to appear as witnesses before the Lusk committee, which opened its investigation of bolshevism in the city hall. The men subpoenaed with Martens were: A. A. Heller, I. A. Hotirwlch, S. Nuertova and Gregory Weinstein, each of whom, according to Sidney R. Flelslior, their attorney, were heads of departments of the soviet bureau. Among those caught in the net was John Reed, erstwhile consul general of the bolshevlst government.