Mar. 11.
A statement has been issued Comrades Rykoif and Tomsky, the: Public Prosecutor, "regarding the arrests in the Donctz coal-basin. It alleges that the arrested persons have systematically tried to ruin Soviet industry by flooding the best mines, destroying machinery and organizing—sabotage and strikes, ete.
The, statement declares that the instigators of the plot were backed and paid by former miners and former shareholders, particularly German industrialists, for the pur-pote of weakening the Soviet defences and facilitating a military invasion of Ru: They were aided, the statement goes on, by Consequentceatives of Red unons had been special conference of the ox-
Urgently summoned in Moscow and had empowered a Council of Three thoroughly to "purge" the Miners
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