SEEKING SAFETY
FLIGHT OF HIGH SOVIET OFFICIAL CHIEF OF STATE IN FAR EAST. ESCAPE FROM STALIN’S PURGE. TOKIO, July 1. The Japanese state that Lushkov, Chief of State of the Far Eastern Political Department of Soviet Russia, has fled to Manchukuo. The Tokio newspaper “Nichi Shimbun” states that Lushkov fled in order to escape Stalin’s purge and is at the moment under police protection. His examination is expected to shed light on conditions in Russia. An officer of artillery, Major Frantzevitch, has also fled to Inner Mongolia to escape the purge. Meanwhile the Foreign Office has received information of increased Soviet assistance in munitions and credits to China. REFUGE IN POLAND. (Recd This Day, '9.50 a.m.) TOKIO, July 1. Lushkov’s wife is reported to have fled to Poland. - /
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1938, Page 7
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