WIDE INTEREST IN ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20829, 12 April 1933, Page 11

WIDE INTEREST IN ENGLAND.

NEWSPAPERS CRITICAL. ENGINEERS " BROKEN BY INQUISITION." (Received April 11, 10.6 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. "Amazing" is the adjective used most to describe the revelations in the White Paper on the Moscow arrests. The "Daily Express" says the paper shows the tangle of lies and third degree methods in which the Soviet authorities sought to enmesh the British engineers. Even the small section of the press which has been critical of the Government's handling of the affair is obviously impressed with the latest disclosures. The White Paper is the chief news of the day, arid carries the biggest headlines in all the newspapers, but there is little editorial comment, owing to the lateness of the hour of issue of the paper. The "News-Chronicle" says that if there was any substance in the charges it was now almost impossible to discover it through the cloud of irrelevant and incredible suspicions. prisoners appeared to have been so broken by the inquisition that it was no - longer possible to say what was the real worth of their testimony. COUNSEL FOR DEFENCE BUSY. UNAWARE OF INDICTMENT. MOSCOW, April 10. Counsel are devoting hours daily to the preparation of the engineers' defence, under the disability that they are unaware of the actual indictment, vihich will only be disclosed when the Court opens.