SOVIET ARRESTS PROFESSORS.
CHARGE OF PLOTTING. (UKITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION —B* ELECiIIO TOLEORAPH —COPYRIGHT.) MOSCOW, November 11. A cause celebre is pending, in which ejght professors attached to technical and military schools are charged with plotting for the purpose of overturning the Soviet and wrecking the fivevear plan, the latter to coincide, according to the indictment, with French intervention. _ . . It is alleged that both M. Poincare and M. Briand participated in the preliminary conversations, the sequel to which w&s the organisation of an I.nternational Commission, including Great Britain and Poland, to intervene. . , The indictment also mentions the nnmes of Vickers, Limited, Sir Henri Dot<3rding (director of the Royal Dutch IVtroleum Co. and the Shell Transport and Trading Co., Ltd.), and Mr Leslie L'rquhart, as conferring with Russian exiles, though it is adni a;d that Great Britain played a minor part.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 13 November 1930, Page 11
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