SABOTAGE TRIAL
SOVIET RADIO OPERATOR. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] MOSCOW, February 2G. The trial has opened of Mikhail Vosnissensky, chief wireless operator at Tranquility Bay. He is accused of sabotaging polar communicatiqtfis and
hampering Levanevsky’s flight to America. Vosnissensky said that hardship and loneliness led to degeneration and indifference to duty because of physical illness resulting from monotony, isolation, and long hours. This so tired him that he shut off the wireless and failed to transmit important messages from Levanevsky. He also suppressed Moscow’s order of hid dismissal.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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