LUSHKOV'S ESCAPE
SCENTED PERSONAL DANGER
SURRENDER TO JAPANESE
(Received July 4, 9.40 a.m.)
LONDON, July 3.
Lushkov scented personal danger in May, when Marshal Blucher, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Red Army, following a visit to Moscow, reprimanded him, after which his secretary was recalled to Moscow. Lushkov decided to escape the execution squad, and sent his wife to Moscow so that she could go to Poland while he contrived to reach Manchuktio. After his wife's departure he left for Habarovsk, ostensibly on a tour of inspection of the SovietManchukuo frontier. He received a telegram from his wife indicating that she was safe in Poland. Lushkov thereon ordered a rearrangement of the frontier guards, and taking advantage of the confusion resulting from this, he crossed the border in dense fog on June 13 and surrendered to the Japanese. He is now in Tokio in detention, but is being treated well.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 3, 4 July 1938, Page 9
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