WAR ON SOVIET

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 9

WAR ON SOVIET

DEATH SENTENCE DEMANDED

VIOLENT ATTACKS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Eoeeived 6th December, 10 a.m.) MOSCOW, sth December. Demanding that the death sentence bo imposed on the eight professors and engineers charged with plotting against the Soviet, the Prosecutor, Krylenko, declared that the trial revealed that the capitalist world was now afraid that the exposure of the preparations for war against the Soviet would frustrate the plans. The prisoners' confessions were voluntary and torture had not been employed. Krylenko emphasised the complicity of Sir Henry Dcterding and quoted a speech he made in Paris in June prophesying the liberation of Russia. Krylenko ridiculed Eamzin as a dupe of the monarchists and capitalists. Addressing him directly, he exclaimed: "They have used you, then tell you to 'get out, you serf!' " Luridly, Krylenko pictured the recent White Bussian demonstration in Paris, derisively reading the names of present and former grand dukes, generals, priests, and courtiers, which were received with paroxysms of laughter. He also violently attacked M. Poincare. Later he declared: "We never, never interfered with Prance and Britain as they interfere ■with us." He described the accused as saboteurs of the five years' plan, which, despite the scepticism of the world, Russia had successfully accomplished. The accused were pale and showed signs of nervous strain.