LATE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 5

LATE NEWS

ANOTHER PURGE IN RUSSIA

Nest Of Spies & Wreckers In Army Schools

FALSE INSTRUCTION IN TACTICS

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received January 13, 1.10 a.m.)

LONDON, January 12.

The 'Warsaw correspondent of “The Times,” in a message from Moscow, says that the Ogpu (secret police) reported that they have discovered a nest of spies and wreckers among the lecturers in Moscow’s military and educational establishments, who have been accused of giving students, false instruction in the art of war, which, if put into practice, would bring disaster upon the Soviet armies. This wrong instruction is said to have been going on for more than a year, particularly in. the Red Army School of Chemical Warfare, where the first “lecturer-wrecker” was discovered to be giving false instruction in tactics. ' Further investigations have revealed that the school’s political commissar, Isakoff, had been “blind and deaf” for a year, while Fascist spies worked under "his very nose. The Ogpu’s new chief, Barea, has 1- ordered a thorough purge of the Red Army’s schools.