Th e police paid special attention to a photostatic room and
a cipher room, as it was known that stolen papers were Photographed before being sent -to Moscow. The photostatic room was hidden underground. In it the police found a man named Koling or Kaulin whose career could easily be traced from correspondence found elsewhere in the offices. He had gained promotion to the important post of head of the photostatic room entirely by such illegal activities as the Soviet had solemnly forsworn. He had in his possession instructions addressed to Communists and leaders of the Minority Movement in this country. One of his particular triumphs had been to seduce from their allegiance several British seamen who visited Russian ports. Other letters discovered in the offices contained plans for sending 940 " politically conscious seamen " (Hindus, negroes and 941 members of similarly " oppressed nationalities ") to serve in Arcos ships. They were to become centres of Communist agitation. All this is a sadly ironic com- mentary on the last official Russian Note to Great Britain, which reproachfully demanded that the Russian representatives here should enjoy possibilities of " uninterrupted, quiet, normal work."
