THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 18, 1937.
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN OGPU SPY BROUGHT INTO FALL OF TUKATCHEVSKI STORY
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LONDON, TO-DAY. A MILITARY DICTATOR- SHIP, WITH THE WAR COM- MISSAR, MARSHAL VORO- SHILOV, IN SUPREME CHARGE OF THE GOVERN- MENT, IS ENVISAGED BY
General Putna's 16-year-old son, who had been attending a military college, has been sent to a juvenile delinquents' in- stitution.
"BEAUTIFUL WOMAN”
Another report says that most of
THE MOSCOW CORRESPON- the incriminating evidence against DENT OF THE
"MORNING POST.”
LONDON General Tukatechevski was provid-
ed by a beautiful G.P.U. agent
The correspondent says that named Lydia Vorongoff, many in Moscow would
She is reported to have become
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have denounced him to the authori- ties when she had collected suffi- cient evidence against him.
COMMISSAR ARRESTED
Preliminary to this, says the She is stated to have been re- correspondent, is the fact that warded with the post of deputy the functions of the GPU the chief of the Soviet counter-espion- much-dreaded secret police, have
age service-Trans-Ocean. been taken over by the Red Army, Assumption of control by the Army, he adds, would apparently be popular, judging from the enthusias- tic demonstrations which attend the appearance in the streets of the capital of officers and even soldiers.
FAMINE DANGER
Moscow, To-day.
The Deputy Commissar for Agri- culture, M. Zylko, has been arrested, says an announcement in the official agricultural organ.
Commenting on the arrest, the journal says M. Zylko was "an
Trans
Several papers publish reports
enemy of the State who had given which declare that a famine on an orders for the castration of breed- unprecedented scale is threatening ing stock and prize.rams and there- the Soviet Union this year owing to by furnished a typical example of a drought which has prevailed in the work of wreckers." the most important agricultural dis- Ocean. tricts of the Union since May, and the extreme shortage of seed has resulted in insufficient or delayed cultivation of the fields.
The threatening famine, so it is asserted, is the real reason for the numerous arrests in the tural areas.
LORD MAYOR OF
agricul- LONDON OPENING
1
The Soviet Russian Government BRITISH PAVILION
claims that scientists deliberately "sabotage" the harvest by spread- ing diseases to the plants.
London, To-day. The Lord, Mayor of London, Sir By the arrests of the alleged George Broadbent, left for Paris saboteurs, the Soviet Government yesterday accompanied by the Lady hopes to shift the responsibility for the famine onto the shoulders of the scientists.
LENINGRAD CRISIS
Mayoress.
Sir George will open the British Pavilion at the Paris Exhibition on Saturday.
Three of the Lord Mayor's special coaches, with horses, have been sent
The situation is said to be par- to Paris, where they will take part ticularly grave in the farming areas in the ceremonies at the Exhibition. around Leningrad, where, the Soviet-Trans-Ocean. Russian Press admits, an acute hunger crisis prevails.
Three thousand
hundredweights
of seed have been distributed among the peasants of this, region in order to assure the provisioning of the population till the new har- vest.
Stalin, so it is said, has ordered a reduction of the grain tax.
According to "The Times" a num- ber of peasants have been arrest ed for alleged sabotage in White Russia, the Crimea and the Mos cow districts.
ACADEMIC TALKS ON: FUTURE OF CHINA
Month's Conference At Kuling
„Shanghai To-day. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is summoning the leading professors of universities in China to Kuling [to discuss the political, economic and Soviet authorities assert that ex-educational problems of the coun- amination of the baggage of a for- try. The conference will start on eign "spy" who was recently ar- July 15 and will close on August rested showed that the “spy" in 15.-Our Own Correspondent. question had smuggled a parcel of seed infected with germs into the Soviet Union.
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Meanwhile, an echo of the recent It is announced that M. Konstan- "generals' trial" is contained in tin, Yurenev has been appointed news that the wives of General Soviet Ambassador to Germany and Tukatechevski and General Putna has been relieved of his duties as have been banished to Siberia. Ambassador to Japan. Reuter.
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