Paris, July 20.
The arrest of the manager, M.; Margoline, of a Russian factory producing bombing planes was reported here yesterday by ihe Moscow correspondent to "Lo Petit Parisien."
Further purges of the party ranks in the U.S.S.R. gre reported by the same writer. The author, M. Boris Pilniak, is among literary personalities said awaiting trial, M. Pilniak sent funds to M. Karl Radek, when exiled in Turkestan, and has helped other enemies of M. Stalin's regime—Havas,
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