FIFTH DAY OF MASS TRIAL

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 345, 28 January 1937, Page 5

FIFTH DAY OF MASS TRIAL

FURTHER EVIDENCE. TRAIN-WRECKING. Russian Press Demands Death Sentence. Press Association —Copyright. Received 11.30 a.m. Moscow, January 27. The first witness on the fifth day of the trial was Kynazev. He said in evidence that 1500 trainwrecking attempts occurred on the South Ural Railways in 1934, and 2000 in 1935, at the instigation of Japan. The entire press of Moscow demands the death sentence and continues to publish frenzied denunciations from various bodies.

REASON FOR MURDER. Navachin Said To Hold Funds For Trotsky. Press Association —Copyright. Received 11.30 a.m. Paris, January 27. The Echo de Paris reports w that “Soviet circles say that Navachin held the funds of the Trotsky party and supplied money for Trotskyist propaganda, even to Russia itself. Navachin was the exiled Russian economist found, dead in a Pai is street as a result of wounds inflicted with some form of stiletto.

Attempt On Life Of Soviet Dictator. Press Association —Copyright. Received 11.15 a.m. Berlin, January 27. The Nazi journal, Angriff, alleges that two electricians were detected attempting to install a time bomb in a room adjoining Stalin's office. Radek’s Mother Wished To Petition Stalin. Press Association —Copyright. Received 11.30 a.m. Warsaw, January 27. The Soviet Embassy has refused transit for a petition to Stalin from Carl Radek’s mother, begging for mercy to be shown her son..