ANOTHER SOVIET TRIAL

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 13

ANOTHER SOVIET TRIAL

HIGH OFFICIALS UNDER SUSPICION

POSSIBILITY IN APRIL

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 29, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, January 29.

The Warsaw correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that reports from Moscow indicate that a third Soviet trial is foreshadowed for April, with M. Nikolai Bukharin (former editor of “Izvestia”), General Putna (former military attache in London), M. Christian Rakovsky (former Ambassador in London and Paris), and M. Altksey Rykov (a former Premier) as accused. The arrest of Marshal Michail Tukhashevsky, the “brains” of the Soviet army, is also expected.

DEMAND FOR DEATH

PENALTY

M. VISHINSKY’S ADDRESS

MOSCOW, January 28

Applause greeted the public prosecutor, M. Vishinsky, when at the end of a five-hours’ address he.demanded that all the 17 men who are accused of plotting against the Soviet should be shot. The prisoners heard the demand without emotion.

M. Vishinsky, who described Trotsky’s followers as “a gang of highwaymen,” concentrated his attack on Piatakov, Sokolnikov, and Karl Radek, whom he described as “a gang of bandits, incendiaries, spies, and forgers.” He declared- that the entire history of the Trotsky party’s political activity consisted of foul deeds against the working class. M. Vishinsky taunted Radek as he quoted from a letter written by Radek during the trial of Kamenev and Zinoviev: “Radek, you exclaimed that people who betrayed their country must pay with their heads,” he said. “Do you remember that, Radek? You are right; the Soviet law knows how to deal with traitors like you.” It is officially -, announced that Trosky’s son, Serge Sedov, is accused of industrial wrecking, which is a capital offence, but officials are still unwilling to confirm the report of his arrest.

“SIMPLY GETTING RID OF COMPETITORS”

KERENSY’S VIEW OF TRIAL

(Received January 30, 1.31 a.m.)

PARIS. January 29

M. Alexandre Kerensky, commenting on the Moscow trial, says it is of the kind usually arranged on the eve of economic difficulty. Stalin is detested by the “Old Bolsheviks,” and is simply getting rid of dangerous competitors. Those who confess are tried; others, far more numerous, just disappear.