Tokyo, July 2.
The Changchun correspondent of the "Nichi-Nichi" said that Gen. Lushkov "scented personal danger last May when Marshal Vassili Bluecher, Commander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Red Army, returned to Habarovsk from Moscow and re-pri manded him for the alleged unsatisfactory results achieved by the Far Eastern Commissariat of Internal Affairs, which conducts secret service Activities formerly in charge of the Ogpu."
"Shortly afterward Lusbkov's secretary was recalled to Moscow," the "Nien-Nichi" correspondent continued, and this fact made Lushkov finally decide to flee to Manchoukuo to escape execution by a firing squad.
"Lushkov sent his wife Ena to Moscow with a secret understanding that he would smuggle himself into Manchoukuo while she was to flee to Poland, "Lushkov then left Habarovsk on a trip to inspect the frontier. Moving southward along the border, Lushkav reached Changlingtze near Hunchun on June 12.
"There he received a telegram from his wife reading, Herewith receive my kiss! This meant she had succeeded in fleeing out of Soviet territory.
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