RUSSIA’S PLANS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1931, Page 6

RUSSIA’S PLANS

SPIES IN GERMANY. (United Prfi» Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, April 27. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says: The scandal ot Russian industrial espionage in Germany is assuming gigantic proportions. Agents of the Soviet are being caught continually and it ip evident that the country is covered by a network of informers who are betraying their employers’ secrets to Moscow. ft is a part of the five year plan to rondel 'Russia independent of the outside world, so there are spies working in all those branches of industry in which .'Russia is backward. Thus five workmen have been arrested at the henna Nitrate Works at Merseburg. There are also many other arrests, due to the confession of an agent named Dienstbach, who wap in charge the Russian espionage in Southern Germany. He has revealed the names of twenty-five spies distributed in various works. NOT GOING BACK. AMERICANS RETURN FROM RUSSIA. NEW YORK, April 26. “I would not return there if they gave me half the country,” said Mr Clarence Warren, a high official of the Allis Chalmers Company, who was loaned to give expert advice to the ’Russian Government. He says that Russia hopes to Communise India and China within three years, and then to turn its attention to England, the United States and Australia.