NEW CONSPIRACIES
DISCOVERY IN RUSSIA AGAINST LIVES OF LEADERS HIGHER OFFICERS ARRESTED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Conyricht) LONDON, Jan, 6. (Received Jan. 6, at 9 p.m.) The Daily Mail’s Riga correspondent says a large number of arrests followed the discovery of new conspiracies against the lives of MM. Stalin and Yezhov. A number of the higher officers in the Moscow garrison are accused of planning to shoot M. Stalin during the approaching festivities for celebrating the anniversary of the organisation of the Red Army. Others are charged with planning to assassinate M.
Yezhov during a tour of inspection of garrisons in the Moscow province. According to a Moscow report the second group is considered more dangerous, since it obtained a large supply of cartridges and hand grenades from the local arsenal for use in a mutiny against M. Yezhov’s O.G.P.U. troops. The new plots are the result of the appointment of M. Yezhov as Commissar-general, entitling him to wear a marshal’s star.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23393, 7 January 1938, Page 7
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