By Vladimir Orloff
M.' Vladimir Orloff tells us, in-The Secret Dossier (1-rarran, 8s. 6d.), that in Tsarist days he was an examining magistrate, and in that rapacity interrogated Dzerzhinsky, afterwards' notorious as head of the Cheka, and Myasoyedoff, who during the War was executed as a spy. When the Bolshevik Revolu- tion broke out he joined " White'_'! organiziftiop, and for its sake took work under the Cheka, thus saving many lives. Found out at last, he fled ; first to Wrangel's army, where he directed , counter-espionage ; then -to Berlin, where in his own peculiar and very Russian way he worts still against Bolshevism. It is a strange tale, strangely told in a jerky style. But it is not without parallel : in the recent past there is the case of Azeff ; and in the present the case of Bazhanoff. In the accuracy of M. Orloff's detail, particularly about Comintern work abroad, there is circumstantial evidence for the truth of at any rate a part of his story.
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