RUSSIAN OFFICERS ARRESTED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 11

RUSSIAN OFFICERS ARRESTED.

SENSATIONAL REPORTS.

DISCONTENT of people.

I'UBSil ASSOCIATIorD7 ELKCT2IC 'I'ELEQHAtH— COITTBIGHT.)

(lleceivod November 23rd, 5.5 p.m.)

kONIX)N, November 22. eports of sensational events in iissia continue to circulate throughout ie Continent. It is even reported that M. fetalin was assassinated, hut the Ta3s Agency denies this, and also enies the arrest of certain Generals, bin. information from Moscow is empux that thcro have been wholesale ftrre-bts of officers. Travellers t'rom Ituss;iti report extensive movements of troops, a rigorous examination of pussnnrts, and train inspection, and their faith in the Soviet l>lnn having fade* H;at Iho people are longing for a change of rogime. [Reports of sensational eountor-rovo-lutionary happenings in Russia reached several capitals in Europe last week. Berlin stated that two battalions of the Red Army mutinied at Moscow owing to lack of food, shooting down their officers. The mutineers were overcome, and the survivors were sent to gaol.]

REPORTS denied. (R'ice:ved November 21th. 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, November 23. '1 he Moscow correspondent of the British Lnited Press reports that, the Government contemptuously decline., to deny the alarming stories of mutiny and the nssnssinntion of M. Stiilin. The Soviet journal "Izvestiu" describes the statements r.s idiotic inventions, designed to create tin impression that the roll apse of the Soviet regime is inevitable. ARTILLERY ORDERED TO MOSCOW. (Received November 23rd, 5.5 p.qi.) BERLIN, November 22. It is reported that two batteries of artillery have been ordered to Moscow, to cleanse the Red Army of its dissatisfied elements.