GERMANY AND RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1928, Page 5

GERMANY AND RUSSIA

SECRET MILITARY CO-OPERATION (Australian Press Association). (United Service). LONDON, Oct. 8. “The Time’s” Berlin correspondent reports that Kunstler, a Socialist member of the Reichstag, has given the paper “Vorwaerts” details of alleged .secret German-Soviet military arrangements, negotiated in 1922-23, including the establishment of a Jun'kers aircraft aero-engine Avorks in Soviet Russia. Kunstler says that everything and everybody Avas given a code designation. Thus Junkers Avorks Avere the firm “N.N.” The German Ministry of Defence, was.'“the special group.” Aeroplanes were, “cases.” “Vorwaerts”'-pub-lishes the key, and also quotations from Moscow in December, 1921. If Kunstler’s disclosures are genuine, they confirm a version hitherto current, hut never clearly established, says “The Times’s” Berlin correspondent, who points out that when the question of the relations betAveen the ReichsAvehr and Red Army came up in the Reichstag tAVO years ago, it Avas admitted that Junker’s activities in Soviet Russia had the German Government’s official backing, but the Government then gave, assurances that its relations Avitlf Junkers had long since been dissolved. The Nationalist newspapers, declaring the whole disclosures ancient ldstory, accuse Kunstler of treason in publishing them, and regret that his Parliamentary immunity protects him from prosecution.