BRITISH ENGINEERS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 9

BRITISH ENGINEERS

OGPU ALLEGES SABOTAGE

SOVIET POWER SYSTEM

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LOND'OjNT, March 14. Though tho British authorities so far have been, unable to discover the charges against tho four representatives of the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Messrs. Monkhouse, Thorn-, i ton, Cusliy, and MacDouald, who were arrested in Moscow, or even where they are imprisoned, a British United Press message states that the OGPU (Russian secret police) alleges thai the company's employees participated in sabotage, and plotted to wreck electric power stations throughout tho Soviet Union.

The text of a statement (reported to have been issued by the OGPXJ), is as follows:—"lnvestigation of a series of unexpected and consecutive accidents recently in the big electrical power stations at Moscow, Cheliabinsk, Zuvesk, and Zlatovsk, revealed that they were due to the sabotaging activities of a group of criminal elements among tho employees of the Commissariat of Heavy Industry, who set themselves the task of destroying" the electrical power system of th"c Soviet Union and bringing to, a halt the enterprises it serves. The investigation disclosed that certain employees of the English firm, Metropolitan Vickers, who are working in the Soviet Union on the basis of an agreement for technical aid to electrical enterprises, are also engaged in these activities."