FAKED DEPOSITION

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 November 1930, Page 5

FAKED DEPOSITION

DISCLOSURE AT TRIAL CHARGES AGAINST RUSSIANS SCENE! RIVALRY HOLLYWOOD. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) JLiONDU N, Nov. 27. The Riga correspondent of ‘a lie Times” states that the authorities at Moscow are chagrined at tne oeiateu discovery of an obvious flaw in the official indictment against the eight accused professors ana engineers. j\yubushinsky and Vishnegradsuy, wno aiv alleged to be candidates for certain portfolios in 1928, died, and were buried in France in 1924-25, yet thennames appear in Ramzin’s published deposition. The prosecution apparently dec-idea to omit them from the report of Ramzin’s verbal testimony. Tbe incident strikingly illustrates the fictitious nature of the whole case. Rrofessor Ramzin wound up his confession by saying, “I am gun tv ; shoot me.” The mass trial continues amid surroundings rivalling Hollywood, ;ncording to the latest messages trom Moscow. A lawyer, with a cigarette -in his hand, shoots questions at. a blackhaired, bespectacled man, while lour judges blow clouds of smoke over the court room and bend forward to listen to K.uprianoft’s evidence. Professor Ramzin, more resembling a judge than a defendant, employs an ear-trumpet in order not to miss a word. He makes copious notes, while “movie” cameras click continuously. Soviet soldiers lounge around the dock, frequently wandering from the room, entirely neglecting tiie accused, who smoke incessantly as anyone. Judge Vishinsky cautioned Kupriauov when lie referred, to France, and said that such evidence must be taken in camera. “The Times” regrets that the Lovernment has not protested against the allegations against Great Britain made at the Moscow trial. It says that the reason why a protest should be made forcibly and without delay is that the Soviet Government, for the purposes of internal politics, is stirring up passions in Russia, which can only too easily become a danger to peace. When that propaganda resorts to false accusations against foreign Governments, it is time that those Governments should use every possible means to put a stop to it. DAY OF DEMONSTRATIONS. SOVIET GIVES APPROVAL. LONDON, Nov. 27. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says that the Soviet has approved of an organisation of a great “Defend the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic’s Day,” selecting December 7 for demonstrations in the chief centres of the Northern England and London by the British Ooinmunist Party, which must parade with its adherents bearing devices advocating the defence of the Soviet against interevention and dealing with the Moscow trial and the designs of the British and other Governments to wreck Russian industries.

NO REAL PLAN. RECORD' OF MUDDLE. LONDON, Nov. 27. The “News-Chronicle” says that Charnovsky, a brilliant member of the Council of (National Industries, declared that there never was any real State plan, because the Plannnmg Department lacked information and statistics. Tt was really a de-planmng department. „ , „ “We remodelled one factory live times, and it is not ready yet. Our scheme was to 'build something which ought to be built in place where it shouldn’t be built, and in a manner that nothing should be built anywhere. That has always been going on.”