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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 28, 1938

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Moscow, To-day.

A trial; probably the most significant in Soviet history, has been announced for March 2 before the Military Collegium Supreme Court of some of the most outstanding figures of the regime.

Among the twenty-one accus- ed are M. Yagoda, former head of the secret police, M. Buk- harin, former editor of "Izves- tia" and former president of the Comintern, M. Rakowsky,

president of the Council of Peo-

ple's Commissars for the

Ukraine, M. Grinko, Commissar

of Finance, M. Krestnsky,

as-

sistant commissar for Foreign

Affairs, M.. Rosenholtz, commis- sar for Foreign Trade, and M... Rykov, Lenin's successor as Pre- mier of the U.S.S.R.

OFFICIAL CHARGES

GUNFIRE AUDIBLE AT KAI-FENG

Chengchow, To-day.

Heavy gunfire is audible in Kaifeng. The inhabitants, how- ever, are quite calm and confi- dent that the enemy troops will not find it easy to effect a About crossing of the river. 100,000 Chinese troops are holding the southern bank of the river, An elaborate net of lines of communication has been completed behind the Chinese defence line so that reinforcements can be rushed Hua to any weakened point. Nan.

CATHOLICS IN FRANCE FAVOUR AID TO CHINA

Subscription For Chinese Victims Of War

Paris, Feb, 18.

the

It is announced that the People's

The semi-official organ of Commissariat of Internal Affairs of Catholic Church in France, La the U.S.S.R. has completed investi- Croix, has opened a subscription gations into the case of a group of for the Chinese victims of the plotters bearing the name "Bloc of

war."

time.

Rightists and Trotskyists," who un- "To succour those who --suffer der instructions from the intelli- and to shelter refugees are em- gence services of, foreign Statesinently humane acts," the journal indulged in wrecking activities, states. "But also, by this ges- diversions and terrorism, under- ture, you open souls to the Gospel. mined the military might of the Your act surpasses the present Soviet, provoked armed attack against her and aimed to defeat the

"Now, millions of our poor U.S.S.R. with separation in favour Chinese brothers in the invaded of the above states of the Ukraine, provinces are in indescribable dis- the Central Asia Republics, Georgia, |

tress. From everywhere: large Armenia and Azerbaidjan, and the crowds present themselves before finally, the Catholic missions. If the mis- system sionaries can give them a bowl of

rice to prevent them from dying, will they not listen to the Word of God with an attentive ear?"

Maritime Provinces, and overthrow of the Socialist existing in the U.S.S.R. together with restoration of capitalism and the power of the bourgeoisie.

GORKI POISONED!

are

the Sino-

The journal asserts that it can- not take sides in the unhappy Sino- The other accused

M.Japanese conflict, and publishes a Chernov, Commissar of Agricul- letter sent from Rome by Admiral ture, M. Ikramov, secretary of the Yamamoto, author of the brochure,

Point of ""The

View Uzvek Communist Party, M.

Catholics Khodazhaev, Premier of Nzbekis-Japanese tan, M. Krutskhov, secretary man-Japanese Conflict," in which the ager to Maxim Gorki, M. Shagan- Admiral protests against certain govich, President of the White assertions and declares that he is a purely private Russian Republic, M. Menzhinsky, now in Italy on successor to M. Yagoda as head of trip.

Abbe Boland, Superior of the the O.G.P.U., M. Kuibishev, chair- man of the State Planning Com-society of priests of the Louvain mission, and the following four Auxiliary Missions, and a Chinese professors of medicine, who are ac student, Miss Chow, recently gave cused of conspiracy and poisoning lectures at the Lille diocese on the Mazim Gorki, who died two years position of the Catholics towards the Sino-Japanese conflict. Each ago Levin, head of the Kremlin Hospital, Pletnev, leading heart of the meetings terminated with a specialist, Kasakov, director of the vote in favour of China. institute of facial metabolism, and Maximov, one of the Kremlin phy. sicians.

All the defendants are alleg- ed to be members of an -or- ganisation combining all opposi- tion elements-Trotskyists, Buk- harinists and Menshevists and are charged with murder, treason, espionage and plotting with foreign Powers to over- throw the Soviet in exchange for-territorial concessions.

TROTSKY ACCUSED

posedly plotted the murder of Lenin, Stalin and Sverdlov, President of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union..

Most of the defendants have been under arrest for several months, and many of them since they were incriminated in the Radek trial in January last year.

YAGODA IRONY

trials.

The Zinoviev and Radek were conducted under the supervi

The indictment accuses Trotskyision of Yagoda, who is now accus- himself, of active associations with ed of practically the same crimes the agents of a foreign power as for which Zinoviev, Kaminey and far back as 1921, when he was Piatakov were executed. head of the Red Army.

The trial will be public and will Other charges relate to 1918 when probably be attended by foreign defendants were at the height of journalists. The death sentence Soviet power and when they sup- regarded as ingvitable