Moscow, Feb. 1.
Joseph Stalin has ordered ioday that the generals 'n the southern Russian military districts prepare lists of all officers of the Red Army who "are politically. undependabl and to submit the lists to him or to the War Commissary, Comrade Voroshilov, within three days.
He also announced his intention to} remove these men from the commis-slons and to prosecute them. It is expected that as a result of this order several thousand officers will be arrested.
According to reports here, Com: rade Voroshilov, who had protested, vigorously to M. Joseph Stalin against the alleged attempts on the part, of the "Young Communists" credit him, has announced his wil-tingness, "not without considerable argument, to carry out M. Stalin's orders.
This purging action in the Rea Army will be carried out under the supervision of M. Voroshilov and Messrs, Kaganovich and Jeshov.
'An extensive purge of the Com. munist Party here is being planned by abe Central Committee of the Party to carry out a relentless campaign against all anti-Soviet elements, 'The purge is expected to. last several months and will be' directed by Comrade Jeshov, the chief of the Ogpu.
Tegal pamphlets distributed in worker circles here to-day, point out that of the members of the political bureau of the Communist Party at the time of Lenin's death, Int. Joseph Slalin is the only survivor still at Mberty.
Of the other six members, Kamenev and Sinoviev are shot, Tomskl committed suicide halt a year ago while Rykov and Bukharin are under arrest awaiting trial and Leon Troteky is in exile, Former chief of the Ogpu and present Commissary for Home Affairs, Comrade Yogoda, to-day fled "a petition to the Executive Committee to release him from this post.
As recently he was removed from the office of Commissary-General for Security of Stale, it appears his! political career in the Soviet Union is Sout "to clove—TransOeean Kuo Purther Arrests widow of Vladimir Lenin, had been arrested in Moscow, were. confirmed yesterday in a report published by "Paris Soir" from its Riga correspondent." Mrs. Krupskaya, a noted member of the Russian Communist Party would be brought before the Court at the opening of the third "Trotzky-Ist" trial in Moscow next April, the Paper says—Havas.
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