RESTLESS RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21197, 1 December 1930, Page 9

RESTLESS RUSSIA

THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL. EXAMINATION OF ACCUSED. FEDOTOV GIVES EVIDENCE. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MOSCOW, November 29. (Received Nov.. 30, at 5.5 p.m.) The examination of the accused was continued. , Fedotov declared that he joined the group of textile engineers. Later he realised that they were counter-revolu-tionaries, but he did not break his asso : ciation. with them. When the Soviet sent him to England in 1925 he reached an agreement with a group of manufacturers who promised to pay 200,000 roubles to the group of engineers with which he was associated.

THE FLAUNTED STATE PLAN.

EVIDENCE OF BUNGLING.

LONDON, November 27.The News Chronicle says that Charnovsky, a brilliant member of the Soviet Council of National Industries, declared that there never was any real State plan, because the proposers of the plan lacked information and statistics. It was really a deplanning department. “We remodelled one factory five times,” he said, ‘and it is not ready yet. Our scheme was to build something which ought to he built in a place where it should not be built and in a manner in which nothing should be built anywhere. That 'has always been going on.”

“ FRIENDS OP RUSSIA.” - PARADE IN BRITAIN ORDERED. LONDON, November 27. The Riga correspondent of The Times says that the Soviet has approved of the organisation of a great “Defend the Union of Sovieta Socialist Republics Day,” and has selected December 7 for demonstrations in the chief centres in Northern England and in London by the Friends of Russia Society and the British Communist Party, which must parade and display devices advocating the defence of the Soviet against intervention, and dealing with the Moscow trial and the designs of the British and other Governments to wreck Russian industries.—Times Cable.