Moscow, Mar. 3.
The British Ambassador, Lord Chiis-ton, was present when the trial of seventeen prominent Soviet officials lund four leading doctors on a charge lof treason was resumed to-day before ike Military Collegium of the Supreme He heard M, Ivanov, former Com-Jmissar of Forestry, one of the accused, testify that M. ' Bukharin, former editor of oftcisi "tzvestia" and one time President of the Comintern, Instructed him in 1932 to make contact With the British Intelligence Service.
'M, Bulcharin is alleged to have said: "We have an agreement with England to overthrow the Soviet regime.
M, Ivanoy told the court: "We sold millions of pounds worth of timber to England at low prices in order to [retain their support.""—Reuter.
The Accused Among the 21 accused ai 'M. G. Yagoda, former head of the Secret Police and former Commissar} for Internal Affairs; Nikolai Bukharin, former editor of "L: vestia," the official organ of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. and the All-Russian Executive Committee, and former! President of the Comintern; 'M. Christian Rakovsky, President of the Council of People's Commissors of the Republic of the Ukraine; 'MIN, Grigor! F. Grinko, Commissar for Finance of the USSR; M. N. N. Krestinsky, "Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs; 'M, N. Y¥. Rosengoltz, Commissar for Foreign Trade; '3M. Rykov, Successor to M. Lenin as Premier of the USSR. and one of the leaders, in 1929 and 1930, in the development of a "Right Opposi-ton," which led to his expulsion from the Political Bureau, 'M. Chernov, Commissar for Agriculture; 'M, Tkramov, Secretary of the Communist Party of the Uzbek Republic:
INF. Kuiblshev, Premier of! Uzbekistan; Mi. Krriuchkov, Secretary-Manager to Maxim Gorkl; MIN. Sharangovich, President of the White Russian Republic; MIN. -Menzhinsky, successor to Yagoda as head of the Secret Police 'M. Kulbishey, Chairmen of the 'State Planning Commission, and' the {following four Professors of Medicine who are accused of conspiracy and
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