ANTI-TROTSKYIST PURGE
EXTENSION ORDERED
COMMISSARS REPRIMANDED
(Received June 10, 1.50 p.m.)
LONDON, June 9,
The Riga correspondent of "Tha Times" states that the Soviet Government, in announcing an extension of the anti-Trotskyist purge, reprimands M. Liubimov, Commissar for Light Industry, and M. Ivanoff, Commissar for the Timber Industry, for slackness, particularly in connection with threats of famine. .
The Soviet has ordered M. Vyshinsky, the Public Prosecutor, to arrest and prosecute M. Korotky, head of tha Leningrad cotton industry, M. Sosmih, Director of the Leningrad Cotton Trust, and others, a number of whom are already in custody. . '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 10
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