The Archive · 1938

REAR-ADMIRAL MARQUART LEAVES HANKOW

Hankow, Mar. 8.

Rear-Admiral Edward J. Marquart, Commander of the United States Yangtze Patrol since February, 1937, will leave to-morrow, by air, for Hongkong en route to America. Rear-Admiral David E. LeBreton, formerly Chief-of-Staff of the United States Fleet, has been appointed to relieve Rear-Admiral Marquart—Reuter, Moscow, Mar. 8.

YAGODA, former head of the Ogpu, repudiated part of his earlier confession at the resumption this morning of the treason trial before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. He denied he had ordered the

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