The Archive · 1938

Soviet Army Officers Reported Arrested

"Free Ukraine" Adherents Shot in Kiev, Charbov

Warsaw, Sept. 5.

Numerous Soviet army officers have been arrested recently in Kiev and Charbov for conspiracy against the Soviet Commissar for Heavy Industries M. Kaganovitch, the Polish paper "Ilustrowany Kurjer Codzienny" learns.

A total of 110 officers belongiüg to the secret organization "Free Ukraine" had planned to assassinate M. Kaganovitch during an inspection tour to the Don Basin. Fifty of the arrested officers were shot after a short military trial, according to the Polish paper.

General Ivanienko is reported to be among the arrested flying officer resisting his is said to ha, seriously we a Soviet Commissar named Sidorenko.—Trans-Ocean.

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