UNREST IN ARMY

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 459, 17 June 1937, Page 5

UNREST IN ARMY

GUARDING AGAINST REVOLT Stalin Cancels Manoeuvres Press Association —Copyright. London, June 16. It is officially announced at Moscow that the autumn manoeuvres of the Red Army have been cancelled owing to changes in the commanding staffs, says the Riga correspondent of the Duilv Mall. The cancellation means that the army will not o' lain ammunition .vhich ini. hr be put to revolutionary u ,ei. The Times’ Riga < orretpt-ndeto states that nine leading Communist in the Ukraine will be tried at. Odessa on charges of systemel'.ically persecuting and unmercifully beating endeavouring thereby to create anti-Soviet discon ten't. The trial is Interpreted as a furtherance of StLlin’t policy of winning the support of the masses. Herr Hitler has intimated to Baron von Neurd.h, German Foreign Minister, that he would refuse to receive the new Russian Ambassador to Germany presumably on .account of the Soviet allegation thalt the recently executed Soviet army offiers ha.' plotted with the German general staff ’to seize the Ukraine, says the News Chronicle,