STATE OF PANIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 31 August 1936, Page 7

STATE OF PANIC.

Russian Colony in London ' Disturbed. PLOTTING TRIAL SEQUEL. LONDON, August 30. The Moscow correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company states that M. Stashevski, head of the Fur Trust, had been appointed head of tlie Soviet trading delegation in London in place of M. Ozersky, who, he said, had been recalled to Moscow a fortnight ago. According to the "Daily Mail," M. Ozersky was recalled owing to his alleged complicity in the plot to kill M. Stalin, but Moscow, while it confirms his recall, denies that he had any connection with the plot. The "Daily Herald" describes the Russian colony as being in a state of panic owing to the presence of members of the Ogpu (Russian secret police) in London. It says similar investigations are going on inlhe Soviet Embassies in other capitals. The "Herald" asserts that the wife of General Putna, formerly Soviet military attache in London, learned of her husband's arrest when members of the Berlin Embassy seized her luggage, though the London Embassy was aware of it a week earlier. The Moscow correspondent of the "Herald" says that Brigadier-General Schmidt and his chief of staff Kuzmichoff are among ten men now awaiting trial on a charge of plotting to kin M. Voroshiloff, Soviet Minister of Defence.