TRIAL AT ODESSA
LEADING COMMUNISTS
PERSECUTION CHARGES
ARMY MANOEUVRES
CANCELLED
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LONDON. June 16.
The Riga correspondent of ''The Times" states that nine leading Communist leaders in the Ukraine are to be tried at Odessa on charges of systematically persecuting and unmercifully beating peasants, endeavouring thereby to create anti-Soviet discontent.;'
The trial is interpreted as trie furtherance of M. Stalin's policy of winning the support of the masses.
The "News Chronicle" reports that the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, has intimated to his Foreign Minister, Baron yon Neurath, that he will refuse to receive the new Russian Ambassador to Berlin, presumably on account of the Soviet allegation that the recently executed army officers had plotted with the German General Staff to seize the' Ukraine.
The Riga corerspondent of the "Daily Mail" says it is officially announced in Moscow that the autumn manoeuvres of the Red Army have been cancelled owing to changes in the commanding staffs. The cancellation means that the army will not obtain ammunition, which might be put to revolutionary uses.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 9
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177TRIAL AT ODESSA Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 9
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