WOMAN’S REVENGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 39, 25 November 1938, Page 5

WOMAN’S REVENGE.

FALL OF ARMY CHIEF.

MARSHAL VASSILY BLUECHER

LONDON, November 18. A woman’s revenge has led Marshal Vassily Bluecher, who was until after the Changkufeng affair in. commaud of Russia’s Far 'Eastern forces, into the Lubianka prison to await the fate of Marshal Tukachevsky, whom he sent to his death, says the Whrsaw correspondent of the “Daily Mail,”

The woman, who was discarded by Bluecher, revealed to Stalin a conspiracy which Bluecher was organising against him. Bluecher, who, like many other Soviet leaders, had been married and divorced several times, fell in love with and married, i after his appointment to the Far Eastern army, a pretty but practically illiterate Cossack girl. As he grew in importance he concluded he should have a more educated wife and chose one of his typists, a clever daughter of a former colonel in the Imperial Army 1 , marrying her after a high pressure courtship. His spurned wife swore vengeance and told the O.G I'.U. to watch the Assistant Commissar for Defence, General Fedko, who knew of the plot against Stalin’s life. Fedko was immediately arrested and told everything. Stalin ordered Blueclier to come immediately to Moscow and sent the chief army propagandist, Mecliils, to the Far East to investigate.