FOREIGN SECRETARY'S STATEMENT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 221, 15 April 1933, Page 5

FOREIGN SECRETARY'S STATEMENT

Accused Had No Connection With Intelligence Service British Official Wireless. Rugby, April 13.—1 n view of the nature of the charges made against the six British subjects at the Moscow trial, the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, has made the following specific statement in the House of Commons:

"None of these men has ever been employed directly or indirectly in connection with any branch of our intelligence service. None of them has ever supplied any information to any such branch; none of them has ever been paid or promised any reward for such information or has been supplied with any money to obtain it. None of them has ever made any report to or on behalf of our intelligence service.

"All the above statements are equally true of the Metropolitan-Vickcrs Company itself. The company has not and never has had any connection with our intelligence service whatever. It follows that any suspicions entertained or allegations made in any quarters to contrary effect are in fact without any foundation whatever."

All newspapers feature the trial, publishing every worn ...... _«ble. Cabinet has arranged to meet during the Easter recess if the result of the trial is found to require immediate action on the part of the Government.