FASCIST PLOT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 126, 14 June 1937, Page 7

FASCIST PLOT

-Bress Assn.

Russian Generals Aimed To Destroy Soviet COMMISAR'S CHARGE

By Telegrapb-

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(Beceived 14, 11.0 a.m.) MOSCOW, June 13. The blunt charge that the exefuted Russian generals had attempted to ruurder leaders of the Communist Party and the G-overn-ment was made by the Commissar \)f Defence, M. Klement Voroshilov, in a message to the Red Army. He said that the ultimate goal of the accuseds' was to destroy the Soviet regime and restore that of landlords and capitalists. "They stopped at nothing to achieve this treasonable ohject and tried to undermine the might of the Red Army in preparation for its defeat in a forthcoming war in which they were awaiting the help of military circles in a foreign Power. In exchange they were ready to cede the Ukraine and dismember our country. ' ♦ M, Voroshilov proceods that he reported to the War Coiinoil between June 1 and June 4 that the secret police had discovered & treasonable counter-revolutionafy military Rascist organisation, which for a long time had carried out wrecking activity and espionage in the Red Army. The list of conspirators was not exhausjfced when the Zinoviev-Kamenev group was shot. "Hormer vice-Commissar Gamarnik, a traitor and a coward, fearing to appcar before the Court, committed suicide. Others faced with incontrovgrtible proof of their guilt conf essed all. ' ' 0

Alloging that those executed had u direct connection with the general otaffs of foreign countries, M. Voroshilov concludes; "This is not the flrst time that tlie Court has scourged those carrying on their treasonable work under the eoifcmand of that bestial Fasciflt traitor, Trotsky. "