“TRAITOR AND SPY”
TRIAL IN MOSCOW AMAZING CONFESSION WORKING FOR FASCISM united Press *ssn.—Elec. Tel Copyright (Received March 5, 1.10 p.m.) MOSCOW, March 4 Further sensational references to) Britain’s alleged plotting against Russia were made at the resumption of the trial. Pressed to explain the meaning of his statement that Rykoff had guaranteed him independence in Bekistan, under the protection of & foreign State, Khojaeff replied: “It was England. He added that he had tried to establish Bokhara as the oentre of a buffer State between Russia and British territory. Sharonovich, a former president of the White Russian Republic, astounded the court by the vehemence of his confession. He said: 11 1 am a traitor, apy, oonaplrator, wrecker, and defeatist, working for a Fascist victory over Russia. We cut-throats planned to kill Voroshilov. Instructed from Moscow Rightists, we planned to wreck houses, and alas disaffected 100,000 peasant# In order to rouse them against the Soviet.” Accused added that he had maJw tained close touch with the Polish General Staff in 1932, and had helped to organise Polish national Fascist# who worked with the Russian Rightists. ,
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20440, 5 March 1938, Page 7
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