Moscow, July 4
In connection with numerous reports circulated abroad within: the past few days, concerning an extensive "purge" in the Soviet (Far Eastern Army, much interest has been aroused here by a statement in the military organ,—"Krasnaia Svesda," today that a "new organization for espior&ge". was recently discovered in the Soviet territory in the Far East. The paper adds that the Ogpu is now carrying out a "purge" on a large scale among the population.—Trans-Ocean.
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