WAR AGAINST JAPAN

Evening Star, Issue 23000, 4 July 1938, Page 9

WAR AGAINST JAPAN

PLANNED BY RUSSIA ALLEGATIONS BY FORMER OFFICIAL CHINESE TO BE ASSISTED FIRST Press Association—By Telegraph—Copjngb' « TOKIO, July 3. “lama traitor to'Stalin, but never to the Fatherland,” said M. Lushkov, chief of the Far Eastern Political Department, who, according to the Japanese, fled from Russia to Manchukuo. This declaration was made in an alleged signed statement given to the Domei Agency. The statement added: “ M. Stalin is preparing for war against Japan. He has concentrated 400,000 men and 2,000 warplanes east of Lake Baikal, and also 90 submarines at Vladivostok.” The statement added that M. Stalin was assisting Chiqji to engage J a pan in a war to exhaustion, after which Russia would attack Japan. M, Lushkov admitted collaborating in M. Stalin’s terrorism, resulting in the massacre of thousands, but he said he had repented. He alleged that M. Stalin had fabricated the intrigues featured in the recent trials in order to liquidate rivals and undesirables. The accused were shockingly tortured until they deposed according to requirements. Dissatisfaction with M. Stalin’s activities was wide-spread. M. LUSHKOVS EXPERIENCES SURRENDERED TO JAPANESE LONDON, July 3. (Received July 4, at 9.30 a.m.) M. Lushkov scented personal danger in May, when Marshal Blucher, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Red Army, after a visit to Moscow, reprimanded him, after which his secretary was recalled to Moscow. M. Lushkov decided to escape the execution squad, so he sent Elis wife to Poland, while he contrived to reach Manchukuo. He, after his wife’s departure, left Tabarovsk, ostensibly on a tour of inspection of the Soviet-Manchukuo frontier. He received a telegram from his wife indicating that she was safe in Poland. M. Lushkov thereupon ordered rearrangement of the frontier guards, and taking advantage of the confusion resulting from it, crossed the border in a dense fog on June 13, and surrendered to the Japanese. He is d»w in Tokio under detention, but is treated well.