GERMAN ENGINEERS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 March 1928, Page 7

GERMAN ENGINEERS

ARRESTED AT DONEIZ

EXPLANATIONS DEMANDED

1 l Lj ij Vj ftlfiOO AOAUSi AIIUN OUntElUill BERLIN, March IT

The German Government has bioiven oil tr-aue treaty negotiations with Die .•soviet pending the clearing up oi the incident ot tlie. arrest ol six uoimaa engineers at Douetz. Dr. Stiesemuiin luts instructed the Ambassador Von Ramzan to demand an explanation, and'the lacilitios l:;r an interview with the accused men. I'uis decision is. supported throughout the country. Indignation us the Jesuit ui tile Doiietz arrests has increased, not only at the manner of the arrests but at the subsequent treatment ot the prisoners. Although the men were in prison for ten days, ceaseless efforts by Von Ran-1 tzau, supported by the electricity company, have failed to elicit the charges beyond M. Cichci in’s and Lykoff’s genniaiities. The names of three accused are still unknown and. it ha« only just been ascertained that the at present at Rostoff. A SOVIET VERSION. R IGA. March-15. According to an explanation from Moscow, the Douetz arrests wore due to the discovery of an alleged conspiracy to effect the economic, if not political independence of Ukraine, in which German and Ukraine industrial interests were supposed to be collaborating. It is claimed that the action will achieve two objects,, the checking of ♦ he separatists movement, and overawing the industrialists generally.