SOVIET RECALLS EXPERTS
TRADE DELEGATES PUNISHED.
MANY SCATTERED OVER EUROPE.
By Telegraph—-Press London, Jan. 15.
The Daily Express states that the Russian dictator, Stalin, has decreed the recall- to Moscow of several of thq experts in the Soviet trad© delegation to London. Their places are being filled by members of the Ogpu (secret police). The paper says 12 members of the delegation obeyed the decree. One named Kipman was arrested immediately h© arrived in Russia and is reported to have been shot. Another, Tom Arkin, who lately held a post in London worth £sooo* a year, is now doing compulsory work loading timber at White Sea ports. Twenty members of the delegation who have not obeyed the order of the recall have been dismissed and are now scattered over the Continent.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1931, Page 7
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