MOSCOW ARRESTS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20828, 11 April 1933, Page 9

MOSCOW ARRESTS.

I ACCUSED MEN SHOWN INDICTMENT. CONFERENCE WITH SOLICITOR. MOSCOW, April 9. The Vickers engineers, who are mi parole, were confidentially shown theW-page indictment of themsttai and others charged with the wwdage of the power plant. They hmtfuerred with Mr Robert TurMfV tjie Metropolitan-Vickers ComjMtiy'sjolicitor, who is to watch anwdings at the British Embassy. TJie British attaches visited Mr W. H. McDonald, who is still in gaol. SUGGESTED REASON FOR ARRESTS. LONDON, April 9. The "Sunday Pictorial" says that m reason suggested for the arrest <rf the engineers is that the engines knew too much about the Soviet's war preparation. i "Bcynolds' Illustrated News" da--s>m that the arrests are partly in retaliation for the foolish attempt, in which Maundy Gregory was impliaW, to disseminate separatist proanda in the Ukraine and Cos- I districts. IMr Maundy Gregory, a London ( Wmalist, was recently convicted unm the Honours (Prevention of AtwKg) Act.] EDITOR DISMISSED. BISCLOSURES ABOUT STATE OF INDUSTRY. RIGA, April 9. A special decree was issued diseasing M. Bogushevsky, chief editor of the official organ of the heavy jjjhistries, soon after the publica- *» of the Soviet's decision to deWop trade with countries other ■■J England and Germany. jvj S°Bushevsky's disclosures injjuaed the exposure of mishand- ■** resulting in the loss of costly roported machinery, the factories' JJawl to accept Soviet-made equip?S\ and also the assertion that *« the output of the Soviet metal **«« were mere scrap.—"The wws" cable. ÜBPORT OF SOVIET DEFAULT. LONDON, April 9. ft ja reported that the Soviet has ■faulted in the payment of £50,000 «» oa March 1 by the ammunition WV° a French company supplyW I wchnfcal assistance."