SABOTAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1937, Page 3

SABOTAGE

STALIN RIDICULED MOSCOW, July 5. A form of sabotage skilfully practf isecl by Communists in Germany has . now been discovered in Russia, to the s embarrassment of Soviet authorit- . ms s It is revealed in an issue of Ro- :/ hochaya Aloskva, Avhich states that 750,000 gramophone records hare been t, submitted to "a political.operation.'’ J These records include a speech by lj Stalin on the draft of the new Cond j stituf iotl! ■ ;ji Some of Stalin’s spleen phrases are •> J missing, and others arm repeated again - ' and again, so that an audience hearing i 1 hem Avould hurst- into, laughter. f i The whole consignment has been j •! ruined, and the director ’of the factory • ! Avhich produced them has been expelled 1 • from the Communist Party. An issue of the Pacific Ocean Star of - | June 20. published in . Eastern Siberia. ’ j records the execution of 37 persons at ‘ I Khabarovsk for espionage on behalf I o' Japan. -V 1 f ■ - - -• —-

This brings., the total executed- in those regions to.l|l in six weeks. The Moscowdoes not .reprint the aiuiounceincmt. After Prosecutor Vishinsky’s warning published .yesterday; against the wiles of female spies, 60 persons were arrested in Moscow. Secret police reveal that they checked the expenditure of the: arrested persons and found that they were living beyond their means. ....