Berlin, Mar. 15.
As the result of the recent arrest by the' Soviet authorities of six engineers in the Donets for alleged subversive has ruptured the commercial negotiations with Russia which "have been proceeding for the past three weeks, Later.
The authorities have released two of the six German engineers arrest ed on charge of sabotage recent, ly in the Donetz coalfields." One of the two has only been in Russia a. few weeks, Altogether 60 persons have bee. arrested on the same charge.
A communique states that the Government is, demanding from the Soviet an explanation regarding the arrest of the engineers, including definite accusations and proofs, and also that permission be accorded to the German Consul at Charkov to visit the prisoners—Reuter, Arrests Accord With Soviet. Law Moscow, Mar, 17, "Comrade Chicherin had a conversation with the German Ambassador to-day with regard to the rupture of the commercial negotiations between the Soviet and Germany. The Soviet Foreign Commissar stated that the arrests of German engineers had. been made strictly on the basis of Soviet laws, which were applicable to every one living in the Soviet Union. Any attempt to bring pressure on, Soviet justice was doomed to fuilue,
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