SOVIET YOKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 59, 11 March 1930, Page 7

SOVIET YOKE.

COUNTER REVOLUTION Scholars Charged With Plot to Kill Stalin. FUNDS FROM ABROAD. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, March 10. The trial has been commenced at Kharkov, Russia, of 45 intellectuals, including 20 of the most prominent scholars and scientists in the Ukraine. The defendants are charged with engineering a counter revolution. The trial is being conducted in the Opera House amid a blaze of publicity. Tens of thousands of people are to be given an opportunity of seeing and hearing the proceedings, for they are being filmed and broadcast by wireless. It is alleged that the 45 accused persons were the ringleaders in a conspiracy to free the Ukraine from the yoke of the Soviet. They are charged with preparing for an armed revolt in the coming spring and with discussing plans to assassinate Stalin, general secretary of the Communist party, and Vorosbiloff, Commissar of the Army and Navy. It is stated that the accused recpivad funds for their purpose from Poland and from Russians in Paris and Berlin. Professor Serge Jefremow, head of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, is accused of being the leader of the conspirators and of using the academy as headquarters. COMMUNIST ACTIONS. Germany Will Hold Soviet Responsible. BRITAIN SETS EXAMPLE. BERLIN, March 10. Following the example of Britain, Germany has notified her intention of holding the Soviet Government responsible for the activities of the executive of the Third (Communist) International. It is understood that the Foreign Minister, Dr. Curtius, has informed the Russian Ambassador that the German Government makes no distinction between 'the utterances and actions of the International and those of the Soviet Russian Government, and will hold the latter responsible for the utterances and actions of the former.