EIGHT GENERALS SHOT

Kaikoura Star, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 17 June 1937, Page 4

EIGHT GENERALS SHOT

CONFESSIONS OF TREASON. SECRET MOSCOW TRIAL. LONDON, June 13. An official report announces the execution of eight Red Army generals, who were condemned to shooting after confessing their guilt when charged with treason. No details are given, but it is believed that they were shot by the executioner and not by a firing squad. The bodies were cremated. The charges were, first: That accused supplied a foreign State with information concerning the Red Army. Second: That they carried on wrecking work to weaken the Red Army. Third: That they were preparing a military attack on the Soviet Union with a view to the restoration of capitalism. The official report added: "After the indictment was read all the eight accused generals answered the question of the president of the military collegium (division) of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., Judge V. V. Ulrich, 'Are you guilty’ by declaring, 'Yes, fully guilty’.” The official report stated that all the accused had been degraded from their military ranks and sentenced to the highest measure of social defence—shooting. The- men executed were: — General M. M. Tukhashevsky, a former Commissar for Defence. General lona E. Yakir, of Lenin ga rd. General I. P. Üborevieh, commander of the White Russian Military Region. General Vitovta K. Putna, former second in command of the crack Far Eastern Army. General Kork, commander of the Moscow garrison. General B. M. Feldman, chief of the administrative board of the Commissariat of Defence. Generals Eid cm an and Primakov.