Tokyo, July 2.
Vital military and other Information connected with Siberia is believed to have come into the possession of the Japanese authorities: as a result of the arrest of General G. 8. Lushkov, former chief of the Soviet secret police, by the Manchoukuo police on June '18 following his ight from Soviet Russia, The arrest ts regarded as one of the most important. Japanese coups which could be made at the present juncture owing to. the General's Siberia. knowledge of the defence plans of
While confirmation is unobtainable, informed circles here consider thal the flight of Gen, Lushkov was the retull of the discovery by the Soviet secret police of a plot to assassinate Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Dictator, and overthrow the Soviet Government. Gen, Lushkov Is believed to hhave'been the leading conspirator.
The Soviet official is reliably learned to have arrived in Tokyo from Changchun on June 21, escorted by Japanese army ofoers.. He is now said to be under strict detention, but there Is reason. to suppose thal being very well treated.
revealed thit a systematic purge of Gen, Lashkov is reported {have alleged. followers of Trotsky in. the Soviet forces is in progress in Russia, He is said to have fled following the receipt of a dramatic letter from Gen. A. Y. Rapis, of the Soviet Air Force, "afler the' latter's suieide— the ""Nichi-Nichi" said that. Gen, Lushkov "scented personal danger ast May when Marshal Vassilit Bluecher, Commander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Red Army, relumed 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 Shortly afterward Lushkov's secretary was recalled 10 Moscow," the Soviet General's Secrets Tokyo, July 2.
Despite Moscow's denial of the reports, local papers today published a statement reported to have been signed by Gen. G. S. Lushkov, described as former Far Eastern Soviet Com: missar for internal affairs, and' asserting that M. Joseph Stalin planned to exhaust China and thereafter annex parts of it.
The reports did not clear up the question of Gen. Lushkov's present whereabouts although the stories were given a Tokyo date line. He was said to be under official protection after having crossed' the "Manchoukuo border near Hunchun and taking refuge with Manchou~ kuoans.—United Press.
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