FURTHER ARRESTS
CHARGES OF SABOTAGE
FEELING IN BRITAIN
LONDON, March 16.
Moscow has officially announced that nine more employees of the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company have been arrested and charged with sabotage. All are Russians, of whom six are women. The arrests now total 40. ■ . ' ■
"The Times" says: "The . Government's representations to the Soviet cannot be too strong. It is intolerable that British subjects working in Russia and executing contracts with the Soviet Government should be included among the victims of Ogpu's hunt for scapegoats for the miscalculations1 and mismanagement by Soviet authorities." . ■•■.-.■
The "News Chronicle" is informed that the defence of the arrested persons is being entrusted to a Russian advocate officially appointed, English counsel not being allowed to appear. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 7
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