MILITARY TRIAL IN SECRET

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 455, 12 June 1937, Page 5

MILITARY TRIAL IN SECRET

CHARGES OF TREASON EIGHT SOVIET GENERALS Significant German Resentment Press Association—CopyrightReceived June 12, 1.30 p.m. Moscow, June 11. The military trial of the eight generals arrested on charges of treason has commenced in secret. The venue is not revealed. The newspaper “Pravda,” in a leading article, significantly denounces German resentment at the arrests. It states: “These wails are merely for lost spies on whom great hopes had been placed.”

PROMINENT MILITARISTS

Confession Reported

London, June 11

Marshal Tukhachevsky, Generals Yadir, Üborevich, Putna and Kork and three other officials of the Red Army are being tried to-day on charges of treason and espionage on behalf of an unnamed foreign power,, says the Moscow correspondent of the British United Press. All eight are reported to have confessed. An official communique from Moscow has confirmed trial and the confessions.

The trial will open at 11 a.m. before’ the military section of the Supreme Court presided over by Judge AT. Ulrich, who presided at the trials of Kemenev and Zinoviev. It is believed that the trial will be held in camera in accordance with a special law passed in 1934. It is alleged firstly that the accused systematically supplied an unfriendly foreign State with information concerning the Red Army, secondly that' they carried on wrecking work to ; weaken the Red Army and thirdly ■ that they were preparing a military ■ attack on the Soviet Union with a j view to the restoration of capitalism. I General Kork is commander of the I Moscow Garrison. The other accused i are Generals Eidema, Feldman and I Primakov. The judges will be Alar- ! Bhals Bluecher, Buedenny and five I others including Geeral Alksis, chief' of the general staff. General Putna ! was a former military attache at London.