NO MANOEUVRES FOR RED ARMY

Southland Times, Issue 23228, 17 June 1937, Page 5

NO MANOEUVRES FOR RED ARMY

Stalin Believed To Fear Revolt

FURTHER ARRESTS OF HIGH OFFICIALS

HITLER’S REPLY TO SOVIET ALLEGATIONS

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright)

(Received June 16, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 15.

It is officially announced in Moscow that the autumn manoeuvres of the Red Army have been cancelled because of changes in the commanding staffs, says the Riga correspondent of ■ The Daily Mail. The cancellation means that tlie army will not obtain ammunition which might be put to revolutionary uses.

The Riga correspondent of The Times states that nine leading communist leaders in the Ukraine are to be tried at Odessa on charges of systematically persecuting and unmercifully beating peasants and endeavouring thereby to create anti-Soviet discontent. The trial is interpreted as a furtherance of M. Joseph Stalin’s policy of winning the support of the masses. Further arrests include the Commissar of Justice (M. Kratinsky), the Soviet Ambassador to Japan (M. Jurieniev), the Soviet Ambassador to Madrid (M. Marcel Rosenberg) and four officials of the Foreign Office and the War Ministry. The Berlin newspaper Zeitung am Mittag reports that sailors in the Vladivostock army area controlled by Marshal Bluecher, who is at present in Moscow, used their rifles against police who were attempting to arrest them on suspicion of being involved in a Trotskyist intrigue. The death roll totals 15.

The News Chronicle says that Herr Hitler told his Foreign Minister (Baron Konstantin von Neurath) that he would refuse to receive the new Russian Ambassador, presumably on account of the Soviet allegation that the recently executed army officers had plotted with the German General Staff to seize the Ukraine.