More Arrests

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 11, 28 January 1937, Page 5

More Arrests

—Press Assn

TROTSKY'S SON

Train Wrecks Confessed By Soviet Accused BLAME PUT ON JAPAN

.(By Telegraph.

i.— Copyiight.)

CEeceived 28, 1.45 p.m.) MOSCOW, Jan. 27. Sergi Sedov, the younger son of Leo Trotsky, is reported to have been arrested on a charge of attempting to poison feHow-workers in the Krasnoyarsk machine factory by neglecting to proviae an outlet for fumes from generators. A nephew of Zinoviev named Zak, employed at the same factory, is also reported to have heen arrested. Both men were denounced at a mass meeting of factory workers. The first witness at the fifth day of the irial was Kynazev, who said that 1500 train-wreeking attempts had occurred on the South Ural railways in 1934 and 2000 in 1935, at the instigation of Japan. Turek declared that he had perpetrated 40 major train wrecks in the last three years. The authorities said they were accidents, the responsibility for which was often shifted on to innocent persona, some of whom were arrested and shot. Ivan Gxasche in evidence said he came to Russia in 1920 as a professional spy paid by the Czechoslovakian intelligence aerviee and was transferred to the German intelligence service in 1932. The evidence has concluded and the case adjourned till January 28, when M. Vishinsky will sum up.