BRITISH
AMBASSADOR
FLYING FROM
THE CHINA
REMARKABLE PROCEEDINGS IS MOSCOW TRIAL
Moscow, To-day.
H.K. TO HANKOW Much time was taken up in yesterday's trial pro-
Shanghai, To-day.
Accompanied by his wife, the British Ambassador, Sir Archi-
bald Clark-Kerr, has decided to feave Shanghai on March 15 for Chungking to present his creden- tials to the Chinese Government.
Sir Archibald is sailing as far as Hong Kong on the "Kaiser-i-Hind," and hopes to fly to Hankow from the Colony to see General Chiang Kai-shek. Later he intends to fly to Chungking.
His
ceedings in listening to the confessions of Ivanoff, former Commissar for the Timber Industry.
evidence was to the effect that he and Bukharin had arranged to sell farge quantities of timber to "British capitalists" at a low price, and so create a fund abroad to be used for financing the plot to overthrow the Soviet Government.
this assistance,
In return for
“BUKHARIN A BRITISH SPY” the "British capitalists" were to Again, in 1934, when he was In addition to his wife, the Am-be given huge timber concessions Farty Secretary for the Archangel bassador is being accompanied all in the northern parts of Russia. district, he had received instruc- the way by Wing-Commander Kerby, The fact that little doubt now tions from Bukharin to organise an the Air Attache, Mr. W. D: Allen, exists as to the ultimate fate of armed rising against the Soviet the Embassy Third Secretary, and all the accused, did not prevent Government. Mr. W. G. C. Graham, his private Ivanoff from cracking jokes on Bukharin was at that time, he secretary.
the nature of his former activi-maintained, an agent of the British
intelligence service.
The party is remaining in Chung-ties. king for a few days and will then return to Shanghai.
Full notification of the Ambas- sador's plans and route are being given to the Japanese authorities Reuter.
In the Colony of Hong Kong in- cluding the Island, Kowloon and the New Territories. during the week ending at 8 a.m. on Saturday, the 26th February, there were al- together 68 traffic accidents, as the result of which twenty-three per sons were injured.
"JUDAS WAGE”-
He confessed that before the Great War he was a member of the Czarist secret police, the Ochrana. and received a "Judas wage” of 75 roubles for each Bolshevik revolu- tionary he handed over.
He accused Bukharin and other Soviet leaders of all man- ner of political crimes, including conspiring in 1918 to get rid of Lenin.
Later, Bukharin, he said, au thorised him to organise a peasant revolt in the Northern Caucasus.
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Finally, Ivanoff began to drag other. Soviet leaders into his net of accusations, including Loboff, who preceded him as Commissar for the Timber Industry.
It is thought that Ivanoff's ac- cusations may lead to further ar rests throughout the Soviet.
The almost frivolous note sound- ed by Ivanoff in giving his evidence
when Bukharin
rose to vanished address the court.
·BUKHARIN'S ATTITUDE Bukharin, former close associate of Lenin and editor of "Pravda” and "Izvestia," sought to present his case in the sense that he had acted solely as a member of the opposition,
He avoided confessing to a hand
crimes, in political
such as
espionage and treason.
In
FANTASTIC EVIDENCE
the
afternoon session, Zubaroff, former deputy commissar for agriculture, gave evidence of a kind which struck an even more fantastic note than that of Ivanoff, He confessed to having made the agricultural industry into a "ter- rible bulwark of terrorism.”
His Ministry, he declared, was for a long time solely engaged in organising an attempt on the life of Molotov, chairman of the Coun- cil of People's Commissars, a
He indicated two former mem- bers of his Ministry, Muraloff and Lissizyn, whose arrest is now im- minent.
He also confessed to having been a member of the Czarist secret police.
“INFORMER”
By way of confirming this, a man named Vassilieff, who was dressed as a typical Czarist police agent, was brought into court for con- frontation purposes.
recognised member of recalled
He said that he Zubaroff as a former the Imperial police and that thirty years ago, he had paid him the sum of 60-roubles for his services as informer.
The afternoon session, then ad- journed-Trans-Ocean.
KRESTINSKY'S VOLTE FACE
Moscow, To-day! Krestinsky's sensational volte face hás virtually signed his own death warrant,
com-
MAIL, MARCH 4, 1938.
STOP PRESS
Foreign observers were pletely taken by surprise by his second recantation.
The
tion given by Krés- tinsky himself is that on Wednes- day he denied all the charges because he felt ill that day and wished to avoid disgrace. -Trans-
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