Riga, Mar. 10.
A sensation has been caused. Leningrad and Moscow owing to the Ogpu arresting a number of engineers, technicians and officials of the Donetz coal-basin on " charge counter-revolutionary activities and plots to destroy mines.—Reuter. Berlin, Mar. 10.
despatch from Moscow states that "six German. engineers are among the persons arrested in the Donets coal-basin, including three sent to Russia by the General Elec-trio Ca. of Berlin, which states that they are most trustworthy. The Company does not doubt that the charge against them will be proved fenfounded but adds that it will pro-ably be difficult in future to induce other engineers to go to Russia to superintend the erection of maas chinery supplied by the company>—Reuter, British and German Firms Accused Moscow, Mar. 11.
Reporting to the Moscow Soviet regarding the arrest of a number of engineers, technicians and officials the Donetz coal-basin, including six Germans, on a charge of counter-revolutionary activities and plots to destroy mines, Comrade Rykoff President of the Union Council of Soviet Commissars, stated that twelve technical experts had been able systematically to disorganize industry in the district, He declared that he was reluctant to a tit that German and British oe 1 firms were connected with the work of disorganization, but it had been established that certain foreign -firms had directly participated in the plot.
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