WOMAN’S REVENGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 10

WOMAN’S REVENGE

FALL OF ARMY CHIEF MARSHAL VASSILY BLUECHER LONDON, 18th November. A woman's vengeance has led Marshal Vassily Bluecher, who was until after the Changkufeng affairs in command of Russia’s Far Eastern forces, into the Lubianka prison to await the fate of Marshal Tukachevsky. whom he sent to his death, says the Warsaw correspondent of the “Daily Mail.’’ The woman, who was discarded by Bluecher, revealed to Stalin a conspiracy which Bluecher was organising against him. Bluecher, who, like many other Soviet leaders, had been married and divorced many times, fell in love with and married, after his appointment to the Far Eastern army, a pretty but practically illiterate Cossack girl. As he grew in importance, he concluded he should have a more educated wife and chose one of his typists, a clever daughter of a former colonel in the Imperial Army, marrying her after a high pressure courtship. His spurned wife swore vengeance and told the O.G.P.U. to watch the Assistant Commissar for Defence. ! General Fcdko, who knew of the plot j against Stalin’s life. Fcdko was immediately arrested and told everything. Stalin ordered Bluecher to come immediately to Moscow and sent the chief army propagandist, 1 Mechils, to the Far East to investiI gate i - ——■