GERMANY AND RUSSIA

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21940, 14 November 1936, Page 15

GERMANY AND RUSSIA

INCREASED TENSION REPORTED ARRESTS IN MOSCOW ALLEGED COMPLICITY IN TROTSKY PLOT (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received November 13, 11.30 p.m.) BERLIN, November 12. Tension between Germany and Russia has increased after the arrests in Moscow of.six Germans and several Russians with relations at the German Embassy, or belonging to the German school or the German Evangelical Church. They include Pastor Streck, a teacher at the German school, and an adviser to the Embassy, and a doctor attending members of the Embassy. “Der Angriff” says others of those arrested are delegates from foreign communists, including two Englishmen, who went to Moscow to celebrate the nineteenth anniversary of the revolution. They are charged with attempting to establish a link between the followers of Trotsky abroad and in Russia. [A message from London yesterday said: After the mass arrests in Moscow yesterday, allegations of espionage and sabotage in favour of a certain central European Power were made against a large number of foreigners. It has been reported to Whitehall from Moscow that about 60 Germans, Austrians, Swedes, and Poles were arrested in the arKi-fascist purge. Several foreigners were earlier arrested on suspicion of being concerned in what is believed to be a widespread fascist plot against tne Government. The accused are alleged to form part of an organisation with agents throughout the country.]