MANY ARRESTED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 5

MANY ARRESTED

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Charges of Wrecking and Spying GERMANS 1MPLICATED

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(Eeceived 13, 8.45 n.m.) LONDON, Nov, 11. The Moicow correspondent df the Daiiy Telegraph States that MM. Mareniev, Datvian, and Karski, Soviet AmMssadorsr to Germany,. Poland, and Turkey "respectively, have been aTfested in the latest purgel It is also reported that the Gefman Conaul-General at Leningrad, Herr Sommer, has been recalled to Beriin at the demahd of the Soviet. Th© correspondent says it js underwood that the Commissariat Of Internal Affairs has offered to Beriin evidence from arrested spies incriminating Herr Sommer in coaneCtion Wi,th various plots. Some Germans who eigned confeslions implicating other German representatives in Moscow, he states, have been put across the frontier after protracted negotiations. About 400 German©, mo&tly of the Left Wingt and politicai. refugees, ar.e at pfesent in prisoh on charges of spying and wrecking. 'jfhe latest artestg include Professor TupolOv, who is th.e real creator of the Eed Air Eorce. A famous series of machiues constructed by him, including that in which the recent record flight ,ov©r the North Eole was made, bore his initials, ''A.N.T.,'* but the markihgs are now .being rehiqved. The majority of vast numbers of those recently arrested, the correspondent deciared, are charged with wreeking or spying on behaif of "a foreign ^tata^' There have been 496 death sentences in the pubhc courts during October on similar charges. The Warsaw correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that M. Batviaii's wife, Madame Maxakova, once a well known opera singer, and several members of his staff, aTe also believed to have been imprisoned. Madame Maxakova is charged with aamciation With Trotskyist plotters.