MOSCOW ARRESTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 153, 10 April 1933, Page 5

MOSCOW ARRESTS.

SIXTY-SEVEN PAGE BNDJCTMENT. TRIAL MAY LAST TEN DAYS. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 9. After being shown in confidence, a 67-page indictment of themselves and others charged with wreckage of a power plant, the Vickers engineers who are on bail, conferred with Mr Turner (an English solicitor) at the British Embassy. The British attaches visited Mr McDonald in gaol. The trial is expected to last 10 days. SUNDAY PAPERS' VIEWS. TWO SUGGESTIONS MADE. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 9. The "Sunday Pictorial" says tliat one reason suggested for the arrests of employees of Metropolitan Vickers at Moscow is that the engineers knew too much about the Soviet's Avar preparations. "Reynolds' Weekly" declares that the arrests wore partly in retaliation for a foolish attempt, in which Messrs Maundy and Gregory were implicated, to. disseminate Separatist propaganda in the Ukraine and Cossack districts.. RELATIONS AND TRADE. CONDITIONS BY BRITAIN. (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 9. In a speech at Birmingham, Sir Austen Chamberlain, referring to the arrests at Moscow, said he hoped the strong feeling expressed during the debate in the House of Commons had brought home to the Soviet Government the conditions on which alone it was possible to maintain friendly relations or for British citizens to trade with them and so contribute to Russia's prosperity and development as well as their own.—British Official Wireless. BRITAIN UNPOPULAR, i MOSCOW, April 8. The newspapers belatedly disclose the British measures for the control of imports from Russia. They fulminate against everything British. The newspaper "lzvestia" declares: "They cannot frighten us. The Soviet is determined mercilessly to mete out justice to all wreckers, including British." The formal indictment will be handed to the five arrested employees of Metropolitan Vickers on Monday. The trial is not likely to bo. held before next Thursday, the Russian day of rest enabling as many workers as possible to attend. Counsel for Mr Bushny is M. Peter Lidoff, and for Messrs Nordwall and Gregory, MM. Aaron and Dolmotovsky."* The trial of the employees of the Stalin engineering works, who were charged with, "wrecking," resulted in sentences of ten years downwards. There were two acquittals.