SINISTER SOVIET
PLOTTING IN GERMANY SEIZURE OF EXPLOSIVES. AGENT'S CONFESSION. (Times Cable.) (Received 9 a.ra.) LONDON, November 2.
The Berlin correspondent of. the “Times" states that three cwt of various explosives, including 1000 detonators, fuses, and home-made hand grenades, also Soviet literature regarding street fighting instruction in the use of explosives, were found at the home of Ueberbrobk, a former tram conductor. The police declare that this man has confessed to receiving £ls a month for activities connected with the inner Communistic circles concerned in procuring and preparing explosives. Ueberbrook was formerly an employee of the Soviet Embassy and trade delegation at Berlin. In 192425 he spent seven months at Moscow. He has been the leader of the Communist “street cell" at Berlin. He was a Communist candidate at the recent elections.
It is believed that tlie explosives discovered are connected with a' plot to seize power in Germany. The “Lokal Anzeiger n expresses the opinion that if the suspicion be correct that Ueberbrook is a Russian, the effect will be similar in Germany to that produced by the piftlication of the Zinovieff letter in England.
Disturbances at the elections in Macklenbilrg-Schwerin resulted in big increases in the Nazis vote. The Nazis fatally shot two Communists while the polling was in progress.
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Northern Advocate, 3 November 1931, Page 5
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