ALLEGED ESPIONAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 77, 1 April 1933, Page 11

ALLEGED ESPIONAGE

INSULT TO AMBASSADOR

GRAVE VIEW IN BRITAIN

LONDON, March 31. New and far graver charges" hay« been laid against the six British Vickers engineers, states the Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." They now face allegations of espionage, for which the maximum penalty •i» death, by shooting, V The British Ambassador (Sir Esmond Ovey), who has left Moscow for tondon, according to Whitehall circles, will return to Moscow "unless th© situation develops very unsatisfactorily." (la other quarters it is stated that a seriou* view js taken of M. Lityinoff's sneerthat methods of crude pressure might ' sometimes be effective in Moxico, but they wore fated to fail in Russia— having regard to" the fact that Sit Esmond Ovey, wa» previously British, Minister at Mexico. The "Morning Post" dcscribci it as an insult to our Ambassador. The "Daily Express" says thera »t« two views prevailing in Ca-binet. Ono is in favour of an aggressive attitufia now ip vjew of the Soviet's defiant declarations; the other is that everything should be done to settle tha question by conciliatory overtures., The majority are anxious that bo iteps ba taken which are calculated to put th« arrested men in greater peri).-A diplomatic break is not favoured., becausa it would deprive tha accused of »uch. help as an Ambassador can give.