Another Soviet Purge
(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, June 10. The Oslo correspond'sjnti of the “Daily Telegraph” says that nine more former diplomats will shortly be tried on charges of Trotskyism, sabotage, conspiracy against the Soviet Government, and relations with Fascist circles abroad .according to the newspaper “Asterpost.” They include Jukubovitch, Colonc?! Vahsilieff, ex-military attache in London, Colonel Smh’noff, ex-military attache in Paris. Yurenieff, ex-Ambas-sador in Berlin and Tokio, and Colonel JakolefT. ex-attache in Berlin. Butenko, who, it is stated, is still hiding in Italy, is reported to have been condemned to death in his absence.
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1938, Page 6
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