Warsaw, Oct, 30, Marshal Bluecher, who is at present under domestic arrest, attempted to commit suicide by hanging, accord~ ing to a report in the' "Dobry Wieczor." The attempt was frustrate ed at the last moment by a G.P.U.
Bluecher and his closest collaborators, mostly staff officers of the Far Eastern Red Army, are charged with high treason, Bluecher {s accused 1: of having attempted to separate part of Siberia from the Soviet Union, 2: of having worked hand in hand with the Japanese intelligence service, the former chief of protocol of' the [Soviet Foreign Commissariat, Weinberg, acting as intermediary, and of having sabotaged Stalin's instructions regarding economic organization in the Far East, The examination of Marshal Bluecher and his collogues is being conducted by general state attorney Wyschinsky, who has already gained considerable experience in trials of this sort—Trans-Ocean, Spanish Trotskyists Sentenced Barcelona, Oct, 29, Five men were sentenced to 15 years' gaol apiece in the local court today when they were found guilty of rebellion against the Spanish Government.
The men are all members of the Labour Party for Marxist Unification (BOURN), known as a group of /Trotzkyist' tendencies. They are Gorkin, director of the newspaper "La Batalla", Juan Andrade, Enrique 'Adroher, Pasqual Gironelle and Pedro [Meset. 'Jorge Arquer was given 11 years' in gaol. Two others accused on the same charge were found in-Jnocent and were acquitted. They fare Tescuder and Daniel Rubull, passing judgment, the Court stated" that the participation of P.O.UM, elements in the events of May, 1937, in Barcelona, aimed at the" setting up a political and Jeconomie regime different from the present one. But, at the same time, [the Court rejected the Prosecutor's allegations about espionage.
The Court also decreed the dissolution of the Labour Parly for Marxist "Unification. and of the Tperian Youth Communist Assocla~
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