PROFESSORS ON TRIAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 29 November 1930, Page 15

PROFESSORS ON TRIAL.

FLAW IN INDICTMENT. A BELATED DISCOVERY. (UNITED I'RF.SS ASSOCIATION' —I! V EI.KCTHIC TKLEGIIAI'H—COPYRIGHT.) (Received November 28th, 5.43 p.ri:.) LONDON, November 27. Tho llijia correspondent of "The Times' states: "Tlio authorities at Moscow are chagrined at tlio belated discovery of an obvious flaw in tho official indictment against the eight accused, Ryabushinsky and Vislincgradsky, who were alleged to be candidates for certain portfolios in 1928, died and were buried in Franco l" 1924 and l!)2o, yet their names appear in Uamzin's published deposition The prosecution apparently decided to omit them from the report of Ramzin's verba] testimony. The incident strikingly illustrates tlio fictitious nature of the whole case."—'The Times" Cables.

DEFENCE OF THE SOVIET. DEMONSTRATIONS IN ENGLAND ORGANISED. (Received November 28th, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 27. The Riga correspondent of "The Times" says: The Soviet has approved of tho organisation of a great "defend tho Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Day," selecting December 7tli for demonstrations in the chief centres in Northern England and London by the Friends of Russia Society, and the British Communist Party, which must parade, the adherents bearing devices advocating the defence of the Soviet against intervention and dealing with the Moscow trial and the alleged designs of tho British and other Governments to wreck Russian industries. —"The Times" Cable.

COUNCIL OF INDUSTRIES. FACTORY REMODELLED FIVE TIMES. (Received November 28th, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, November 27. The "Daily News-Chronicle" says: "Charnovsky, a brilliant member of the Council of National Industries, has declared that there never was any real State plan, because the planning lacked information and statistics. It was really a de-planning department He said: 'We remodelled one factory five times and it is not ready yet Our scheme was to build something which ought to be built in the place where it should not be built and in the manner that nothing should be built anywhere. That has always been going on.' "