The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 15, 1933, Page 6

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TO WEBSTER HALL MASS MEETING FOR RECOGNITION OF THE SOVIET UNION | CHINESE RED ARMY IN HUGE VICTORY WIPES OUT 20,000 NANKING TROOPS Captures Great Store Machine Guns; Victory ae Rifles, Munitions vear Nanking | 50,000 Aboriginal Tribes In South China Revolt Gain Under Red Flag; NANKING, Victories April 14—Two Gvitions of the best troops at the disposal of the Nanking Government, half of a third! division, and an entire regiment of a fourth have been wiped out by the Chinese Red armies, according to an official spokes- | man of the Na ig government. The Kuomintang losses to- | talled abot ut 20,000 men, while 2————_—____— ____ large munitions, | rifles, eadline guns, and other military supplies were captured by of nists have cripplped the hey are stronger (where Nanking, Kuomintang Govern- Ed.) than they! fore; they consti- areat to the continued government, the n stated today. is sending four divisions and several s from Loyang in a to resist the rising mmunism in South and The Canton govern- to take over the| offered ght the Japanese. erate military situ- , this offer will al- nly be refused, as it means | é line of march into Nank- | fs and Hankow unprotected. CANTON, March 14 @y MaiD.~ t sand peasants on the bor- of Kwangsi, Kweichow and Hu- provinces in the far south of between the Indo-Chinese bor- id the Yangtze—Ed.) are in evolt under the banner of the Soviets. The peasants are | members of non-Chinese tribes, orig: inal inhabitants of the southern sec- tion of China. Armed with modern | rifles they are carrying the revolt! to the Chuan, Hsinan, Kuanwang, Yeening, and Linchuen districts. The Sout the t Political Council of y Kuomintang is join- | ing si provincial author- | ities in attempting to suppress this | action (as well as all other peasant | and worker movements for freedom from landlord and foreign impertal- | ist extortion The Chinese Soviets are rallyi the indigenous non- Chinese tribes under their banner | with the demand of self-determina- | tion for the Lolo, Shan, and Miao peoples who inhabit the extreme south of China. | French fear that Soviet uprisings | in South Chii Chinese masses i tion has been fanned by this revolt. | France's policy imperialist aggression the limit is, dictated by her desire to stir the Indo- | | trous defeat of the fifth anti-red ex- | | port given to the Red Armies by the continue exploiting the Indo-! Chi: peasantry. Signe ie PEIPING, April 14—Sharp disa- greements between General Chiang Kai-shek and his staff of German military experts followed the disas- | pedition. The German staff attri- | butes the debacle to the Kuomintang | | military strategy which consisted in | an attempt to surround the Soviet Districts in a wide circle. The Kuo- mintang lines of advance were con- | tinually broken by sudden Soviet at- tacks which punctured the Chiang Kai-shek front. Se oe The real explanation of the Kuo- | mintang defeat lies not in its mil- | itary strategy, but in #he active sup- | overwhelming majority of the Chin- ese peasants and workers. The re- cognition that the Soviets were lead- | ing the armies of Chinese liberation, spread into the ranks of the Kuo- mintang troops, and led to serious | | disaffection in five of the eight dix | visions sent against the Soviet ter- | ritories. JAPANESE DRIVE ON INTO CHINA “Will Invade Until Re-| sistance Stops” SHANGHAI April, 14. — Japanese | forees smashed the Chineese salient today, driving the defending forces into a desperate retreat alonk the whole Long Pass front. Kienchangy- | ing was evacuated by the Chinese | after heavy bombardment; Jap- | anese are pressing rapidly eoaaed Funing fifteen miles southeast of the | Leng Pass, while the Japanese mete flank captured Kupei. ‘The Japanese advance will continue ash long as the Chinese forces resist, the Japanese military mission in Mukden stated today. This means that Japan will press to the gates | whole Lwan River valley (a natural | hands. TWO JAPANESE COMMUNIST PARTY LEADERS MURDERED AFTER ARREST Bodies Found Beheaded; Had Been Tortured; Autopsy Barred ‘TORYO, March 15 (By Mail).—Two member ieee the Central Committee | of the Communist Party of Japan are believed to have been murdered by | police, it is announced by the Nihon Sekishoku Kynenkai, Japanese Section | of the International Red Aid, parent national Labor Defense. The two revolutionaries were arrested and then could no ager be Lately two beheaded bodies, @— traced bearing marks of violence, were re- ported removed from the city by | the police. | ‘The Japanese working class defense | 0p writes: “The bloody terror re- | gimme of the Mikado has committed another murder in Tokyo. Takiji Kobayashi, a Communist writer, au- thor of “March 15, 1928,” which was translated into German and widely read, was arrested by Tokyo police February 20, and found dead in a hospital six hours later. Tortured te Death “Police deciared he died of failure. His body bore signs of tal mistreatment. Besides across his back and chest, his and feet were searred from “Police compelled the Hirt refuse to make @ post-mortem ination. They seek to preserve Tecy, but the masses are aware of by Authorities | organization of the American Inter- their atrocities. “The masses know that more than | 60 revolutionaries have been murder- | ed in the past few years and that the police department is a torture or- ganization for the Mikado. “The terror regime is being inten- sified as war goes apace in* North China and the intervention plot | against the U.S.8.R. is being com- pleted. | Mass Funeral | “We are holding throughout Japan today ® mass funeral of workers and peasants for the murdered Kobay- ashi. This is the fifth anniversary of the mass arrests for revolutionary activity in 1928. The police author- ities have prohibited the funeral, but the workers will resist the ban.” ‘The Japanese defense organization ealis upon workers to demonstrate in protest of the terror before Japanese embassies and consulates, | handed. |“Case Is Simple,” Says Moscow [zvestia, “Spies Betrayed Each Other, and Now Hope to Escape” (from Our Moscow Correspondent) MOSCOW, April 14—Izvestia, in an article yesterday headed “ of Spies and Wreckers,” writes: jlegend is exploded. Attempts to create prejudice against the Court by blubbering about the defendants hav- ing been subjected to impermissible methods of coercion has completely | fallen through. “Thornton, as an experienced spy, knows that usually no government will defend its secret agents when they are uncovered and caught red- Confronted by the testi- mony of other witnesses, and not} knowing whether material evidence} existed or not, Thornton, when ar- rested, decided to save his skin by a frank confession, and gave testimony) describing in detail the crimes of sev- eral other spy-agents. When re- leased from prison on bail, he learned that, contrary to his expectations, there would be an energetic defense, and made up his mind to try to cor- rect the situation. court like a reptile that has been stepped on. The Thing Is Clear “There are no secrets in this whole story. The puzzle is explained quite simply. The spies when eaught be- trayed each other. Theil attempts to pull their paws out of the trap | failed. They are caught. And all the | prayers which during the Easter holi- days will be broadcasted on the radio for the health and happiness of these pious individuals will not help them. | The truth will not be hid. He wriggles in| | | | land. hearing the case today against the defendants charged with sabotage activities mainly in electric power stations—those key sources of eher- gy, on whose work depends the nor- mal development of industry. This trial reminds us that the class enemy will not, of his own free will, part from the stage of history. the contrary, he uses every possibil- ity, however small, of hampering the strengthening of the Socialist order. Havin fully ersing the course of develop- ment o. our Socialist country, he is now satisfied with whatever he can succeed in doing to weaken indivi- dual economic sections of construc- | tion in our Socialist industry.” Izvestia speaks of the sabotagers in agriculture who tried, by bring- ing about food difficulties, to sow dis- content among broad masses of pea- sants and workers, and says: “The class enemy miscalculated. ‘The Proletarian State has destroyed these schemes, and has very proper- ly punished their authors. The spring sowing results prove the strengthening of Socialism on the In attempting to disorganize the work of the power houses, the class enemy intended to check our economic growth. Here he likewise miscalculated. The Proletarian State has put these champions of barbar- ism against technique on their trial. The endeavours of this insignificant group of bourgeois technical intellec- tuals will not be able to check the “Why shouldn't some of the Eng- | strengthening of the Socialist order. lish millionaires turn generous and|NOr will these people be allowed to | publish daily stenograms of the trial? It will cost less than the present anti- | Soviet propaganda. There is enough |paper in England. What is the trouble then? Wherein lies the diffi-| culty? The difficulty is in the fact that| the Imperialist clique want to keep | | the English people in ignorance, and|the defendants’ get help in their wrecking work from individual foreign engineers, who have come to the U.8.S.R. not to engage in construction, but for entirely different purposes. “Respectable Engineers” “The British conservative papers naively ask us: ‘Why do you put on bench respectable |cannot transmit the light and truth| British engineers?’ But by now no | revealed in this trial. But nothing | will help you, gentlemen. The truth | will reach the English people, and one can be so naive. We put these | engineers, including British, on trial, because they engaged in counter-re- will reveal the secreb work of all the) volutionary activities, the destruction master class, preparing adventures) which may cost a great deal to the world.” Soa i MOSCOW, April 14—An Izvestia | editorial dedicated to the trial of | the engineers which began today, writes: “The Supreme Court begins of Socialist enterprises, wrecking, and espionage. We are trying them for crimes which are punishable in all countries. The ‘humanity’ of the British press is well known. Press is particularly ‘humane’ towards enemies of the Soviet Union: British imperialism is trying to represent the de- | On | given up hope of success- | This | defendants as the viciims of ‘Soviet | terror’. It has created the theory that the U.S.S.R. stages wreckers’ trials in order to distract the atten- tion of the workers and peasants from the ‘collapse’ of the Bolshevik economic policy, Humorists may envy this wonderful theory. Indeed, is it not ridiculous when serious or- gans of the press can apply the phrase ‘economic collapse’ to the stormy growth of the Soviet econc- my? In the last five years the US. S.R. has become a first class indus- trial country —a powerful Socialist | State. Will Try The Wreckers “The courts of the Soviet | will quietly try the case of the U ers, including those of British na- tionality, undeterred by threats. Dic- hard publicists and must | member that the day of ‘Curzon ul | timatums’ is long past and will ne- | ver return. “If people in our coun- try commit crimes, these crimes w ill be tried by our Soviet courts, | judged according to our Soviet laws; and sentence will be pronounced in complete disregard of protests, screams, or attacks from the editorial offices of the Britis imperialist con- | Servative press. These people must | understand that the U.S.S.R. will not be scared by hysterical screams and threats. We advise them to jabb less about the ‘collapse’ of Bol | vik economic policy, and take m account of the changes which have occurred in economics, techniqu and the relationship of class for in the U.S.S.R. as a result of the | five-year plan. Our country has be- come a powerful state, independent. | of capitalism, and it will neve: allow | anybody to undermine its power.” | Vigilance Is Necessary | “Our economic enterprises are So- | clalist enterprises, and every Bolshe- | vik, worker or peasant, must gua |them like the apple of his eye. are ascending, we are on the < of the mountain. The enemy is no more able to defeat us in open battle. | But the enemy has re-arranged | lines—not disappeared. Vigilance. is now more than ever ne‘ than when the enemy ed open- ly. Measures severer thgn ever be- fore are now needed to Paral the undermining activities of the ene- mies of the people, who are trying to check and break down our Socialist industry.” MDONALD SEEKS With United States LONDON, April 14.—In a speech © open insurrec- | of Peiping and Tientsin, bringing the| before the House of Commons yes- terday Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- f backing Japanese | buffer territory directly east of the| Donald denied that any agreement in China to | former Chinese capital) into Japanese could possibly be reached at Wash- ington in conversations with Roose- velt. “We want only an understand- ing,” said MacDonald. That the prime minister was aware that the United States, by calling | the series of conferences with repre- sentatives of 42 nations was trying to establish its own leadership over the world economic conference and to gain advantages in the arms con- ference was plain by his statement that England would not try to en- courage the United States to “change its traditional policy of avoiding Eu- ropean entanglements.” May Be “Exception” to Rule ‘The only possible exception to that rule, said MacDonald, would be in case it was necessary for unity of action in defining an “aggressor na- tion, since America is a party to an agreement setting forth that point.” “Certain threatening influences,” said MacDonald, “menace the peace of the world,” and it is to be hoped that some agreement can be reached in trying to solve such problems. This statement was clearly under- stood by the House of Commons as | reference to the British imperialist campaign of provocation against the Soviet Union. That MacDonald recognizes that the only point on which the United States and Britain can agree is jual hatred and fear of the Soviet Union was made clear. The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage-laborers—Communist Manifesto, No Other A Agreement | NAZIS ADDING TENS OF THOUSANDS ANTI-SOVIET AID MORE BROWNSHIRTS TO THE POLICE | Continue Terror Drive; Corpses of Workers Found in Forests; Workers Still Fight BERLIN, April 14.— The fascist government is becoming alarmed about the thousands of storm troops who are unemployed. Goering has issued & new order stating that the police are “completely overworked,” and demanding that more storm troops be drafted into the special po- lice. At present, about 60,000 Nazis have been given police uniforms. aie aie Every day new fascist raids. take place in the proletarian districts. Whole streets are surrounded by the police; on the roofs of the houses Police snipers are posted, ready to shoot down anyone who attempts to leave. The action generally takes 5 or 6 hours. The workers homes are wrecked, and about 100 to 300 work- ers taken prisoners. Most of them are first sent to-Nazi barracks. Af- ter a few days, they land in the hos- Pitals, the internment camps, or the mortuary. es ee BERLIN, April 3, (By Mail).— Fresh accounts of the Brown Terror in Germany indicate that the fas- cist attempts to smash all indepen- dent wotking class organizations are gaining in intensity as the new fac- tory council elections approach. In spite of the murderous. Nazi attacks on all militant trade union and po- litical leaders, proletarian resistance in the factories is stiffening, and the National Socialists have been in many instances forced to withdraw pro- posed wage cuts in the face of strong class pressure. The Berlin Police President Levet- zow, sent in @ secret report to the Nazi Home Secretary, Frick, in which he states that between February 27 (the day the Reichstag burned) and March 25, 247 political murders were committed in Berlin alone. Of the 247 persons killed, 17 were Nazis, 14 were Jews, and the remaining 216 Communist and Socialist worke: small businessmen and intellectuals. Death List Pre-Arranged Nazi proscription lists of persons to be arrested, imprisoned or mur- dered, as soon as Hitler came to power, were prepared for years in advance. They were drawn up dur- ing the regime of Braun, Severing, and their Socialist police presidents who consistently refused to take any steps against the Nazis, although and shot down Berlin proletarians (May Day 1929). This is proved by the fact that Nazi gangs have on several occasions gone to the homes of workers’ leaders who died several years ago. In their fury, they ar- rest the widows and children of these men. The house of Ernst Meyer, who died three years ago, was raided by Nazi storm troops, who arrested his fifteen-year old son, and took him to Nazi barracks. Nothing has been heard of the boy since. ‘Women Abused In Hakenfeld, the home of a wo- man worker was wrecked by storm troopers because she was unable to give them the address of a Com- munist functionary. The woman Tes so brutally treated that she atteiazt- ed to commit suicide. She is now in a hospital. In another family, also in Hakenfeld, the man had to flee, his wife tried to commit sui- cide, and their two children (aged between 2 and 10 years) are alone in the house, and have to go beg- ging. In Lichtenberg near Zittau (the Czechoslovak frontier), Nazis and po- lice raided the village. They search- ed every house, and stole large sums of money. Seven persons have been arrested. No word has been heard from them. Tm Chemnitz, a large number of they imprisoned Communist leaders | LUDWIG MARTENS, Judges in Moscow Trial of British Ss TO DEMAND U. S. RECOGNIZE USS Mo In Webster Hall, New York City NEW YORK.—Professor H. W. L. rmerly of Paris and Columbia es; Harry F. Ward, Union Teological Seminary, who re- cently resurned from a long visit to the Soviet Union; James W. Ford, 2d of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men’s Lea Donald Henderson, who is being expelled from Columbia for Louis m Necdle T: refusing to serve ca yman, President of des Workers Indus- radio lecture id Carl Brodsky,. of Only paign for Unior the importance of the cam- | recognition of the Soviet | cauld rally such an array of | fighters for the cause of the workers and pe s in the Soviet Union. Workers must rise to this situation and turn out to this meeting in great masses. Nothing thousands of workers throughout the tion of solidarity. | ing in Webster Hall, Sunday, 2 p. m. and demand that the United Sta Government recognize the Soviet . FLEET TO CHINA , April. 11.—Twelve de- the United States As’etic Naval fleet carrying more than 2,600 men sailed today to remain off the No! China coast for the summer. The fleet together with the Black- hawk, a tender, is cruiser Houston now at Shanghai. | The fleet is Said to be sent for “maneouvres” but will probably wait in readiness for use against the Chin- ese people in the present Japanese war to partition China, Jews were given from 50 to 75 strokes with a leather whip. When the pri- son is full, some of the workers are lashed and then forced to wash off all symbols of proletarian parties from their hous:s. Photographs of this procedure have appeared in the Nazi press. The well-known teacher, Dr. Ep- ping, was arrested in Chemnitz dur- ed him while he was being led away. This was the signal for storm troop- ers to belabour Epping and the school children as well with steel rods. Truck Driver “Well Treated” Last week, one of the truck drivers of the Wittler bakery in Berlin was attacked by Nazis and dragged to the barracks. From there, he was taken in a taxi to the notorious murder den in the Friedrichstrasse, where he | was beaten until he became uncon- cious. He was then forced to lick he boots of some Nazi workmen at the Wittler Bakery. When asked whether he had been well-treated, he was forced to answer “yes.” On March 26, special police raided | the home of the Secretary of the Red Aid. They did this in the most. brutal fashion,” breaking the furni- ture and taking with them all liter- ature found. The most offensive epi- thets were used against the wife of Comrade Dittbaender and his chil- dren. Dittbaender was, of course, not at home, but the special police threatened to tind him and put him in a concentration camp. More Corpses Reports have appeared in the Ger- man press of “corpses of unidenti- fied persons,” “corpses of kidronn-d victims” being found in the forests in the neighborhood of towns. Also short reports’ such as “In the worker's dwelling, so-and- so street, X.Y. was found dead.” Reliable reports sent to Zurich de- scribe torture conditions in the Ger- man prison camps. The prisoners are subjected to diabolical ill treat- ment; their joints and fingers are broken before they are killed, and they are required to dig their own graves. Ernst Theelmann hes been brutally beaten before the eyes of his arrest- ed comrades. He is led from prison to prison and through the working class districts of Berlin in chains, according to Willy Trostel, a Zurich correspondent, should deter the} ing school hours. The children cheer- | ESPIONAGE IN SOVIET UNION DIRECTED FROM LONDON TRIAL SHOWS | Two Engineers, ‘Suebiie British Gov’t Ready to Defend Them, Try to Retract But Make Sorry Mess less of Things Trial Now Going On In of B ish and Russian Engineers in Moscow ae. English Army Intelligence Officer As Chief of Spies One of the, Meeting Sunday | with Dean of | tion, Union; Mrs. Susan H, Woodruff. | the National Committee of the ef the Soviet Union, will at the mass meeting for recog- viet Union, April 16, ter Hall, 119 E 11th | (From Our Moscow Correspondent) TLOSCOW. , April 14.—The second day of the trial of. a accused of s ongineers aken the indu about the ‘defense plans, of th ritish spying, machine wrecking and gather information e U.S.S.R,, ling disclosures were brought out concerning the role of the Metropolitan-Vick- ers Company as the British Russia. Thornton, one of the accused, ad- mitted gathering information about conditions at the power plants, and about the economic position and po- litical sentiments of the work a view to ascertaining strength of the Soviet Union. Court heard Thornton’s given at the preliminary admitting an agency of Secret Service in t The statement examina- widespread out about the defensive facilities of the Soviet Union; they heard him admit in Court that his immediate superior in the firm of Metro-Vickers | es Richards, a former intelligence officer in the British army, who was in charge of intelligence Archangel during the British inter- vention of 1918, Old Tite Spy Ail information gathered by Thorn- ton, MacDonald, Monkhouse and other engineers in the employ of| Metro-Vickers, with the aid of bribed | Soviet engineers. was sent directly to Richards. There was a tense atmos- plete ih the Cotitt #6 it Was made | clear that the opératioris of Metro- | Vickers in the U. S. 8S. R. are in | charge of a man who headed the spy ce of the British interventionist my sent against the Russian work- ers. Thornton denied his confession | made at the preliminary investiga- tion, but he was a miserable failure | in his efforts to substitute a tissue city from attending this demonstra- | All out to the meet- | German | ~ of obvious falsehoods for his earlier statements in which he had con- fessed his espionage and wrecking plots, and his communicating secret military and economic information to Richards. The denial of his former admissions appeared the less substan- tial since his statements at the pre- liminary examination had been in several instances made. in his own | handwriting. Thornton could not help) admtting these statements as his own, but maintained brazenly that he had not told the truth in the earlier ses- following the | 18S. though he had to admit that no coercion had been used in obtain- ing his earlier confessions. MacDonald Tangles Up MacDonald, at the morning session, | tried to retract some of his testimony given at the preliminary examination, particularly his admission of having directed Guksev and Sokolov, man- ager and assistant manager of the} Zlatoust power plant, to obtain secret military information, and cause a breakdown of the power plant through criminal acts of wrecking and sabo-_ tage. However, he was unable to| maintain his retraction, and later | again re-affirmed his complicity in| wrecking and spying activities, as well | as the guiding role played in these! activities by Thornton and Monk-~- house. MacDonald cut a sorry figure in his attempt to repudiate earlier testi-} mony. He became involved in a mesh of contradictions, and some of his replies to the Prosecutor's questions were so absurd that, despite the tense atmosphere, laughter broke out in the courtroom. He said, for instance, that he had been gathering military | information just out of “mere cur-| josity.” Admits Wasn’t Coerced In answer to a question by Vishin- | sky as to why he had made a con- fession at the preliminary examina-| tion if he now repudiates it, Mac- Donald mumbled something about; finding it “convenient” at that time to make admissions. He admitted on several occasions that no coercion of | any kind had been used in obtaining | confessions from him. Under persis- tent questioning from the prosecution and in the face of testimony by the| other defendants MacDonald grad-/ ually abandoned point after point of his retraction, and again admitted the truth of his earlier statements which revealed the network of es- pionage and sabotage plots directed from London by Richards. Can’t Describe “Suggesting” Thornton’s denials of his earlier spving | | activities for the purpose of finding | work at) eviderce were riddled by the prosecu- tion in the same way. Thornton at i one point stated that his. admission about his inter in military ‘infor- | mation had been “suggested”*to him by examining State Attorney Rogin- sky, now a as assistant prosecu- Chief Prosecutor ‘Vishinsky to describe the “suggesting”. his. con- fession. The defendant rentained ilent, unable to support ‘his’ prepos- terous assertion. Regarding other admissions about the English spy ‘or- ganization in the U. 8. S. R.-directed | by Richards, Thornton said. that he | had been so upset that he had not cared what he was confessing: Admits Essential Points |The Prosecutor, then analyzing Thornton's statement, obtained from him the admission that the essential | Points were true. The statement was very business-like and concrete, giv- ing éxact data concerning the num- ber of Meiro-Vickers employees in the U. S. S. R., and the part played by each in the work of espionage and wrecking. The classification of Metro-Vickers employees, as“to, their spying and wrecking activities; was shown. by the prosecution to tally exactly with the facts, thus. proving that Thornton had perfect presence of mind when he made his statement: Despite his brazen denials of earlier admissions, Thornton failed in his attempt to repudiate the essential parts of his previous testimony; and admitted that he had been gathering secret information, including military data, and that he had been paying money for it. Woman Secretary Confesses Among other defendants giving evi- dence which confirmed the ‘spying, plotting and wrecking activities of Metro-Vickers employees acting under instructions from ex-intelligence offi- | cer Richards, was Kutuzova, the only woman defendant in the case. She had worked for six years as secretary in the Metro-Vickers office at Mos- cow. and testified about her close personal relationship with Thornton. Monkhouse and Thornton had dis- cussed in her presence their sabotage Plans and espionage work. She was at all times in touch with their crim- inal anti-Soviet activities and was worried about possible consequences to Thornton in case these activities came to light. She had assisted in | carrying out some of the routine work maintaining secret communica~ tions between Thornton, Monkhouse | and their agents. She told in Court | about Thornton making entries con- cerning his secret work in notebooks, which were then transmitted to Rich- ards in London. These entries con- tained information about espionage and wrecking activities, and the sums of money paid out by Thornton for | this work. Guided From Londor | Yesterday's proceedings — revolved | about wrecking and spying carried on by Metro-Vickers employees. and their agents in only one power station, the Zlatoust; but already the trial re- veals a picture of dastardly counter- revolutionary plotting and sabotage guided from London ‘by the man who {had directed spying operations during | the British intervention against the | Workers’ Republic, and’ who is now directing Metro-Vickers affairs in the ; Soviet Union. The trial. thus far reveals the despicable moral stature of MacDonald and Thornton and te | some extent Monkhouse — at once plotters and cowards, brazen in their H attempt to deny truth, and elumsy in {their methods of concealing. facts. When arrested they thought it best for them to tell the whole truth, but apparently, encouraged by. the Brit+ ish bourgeois press and. diplomacy taking them under its wing, these unscrupulous and cowardly men took up an attitude of bravado, and shame= lessly proclaimed themselves as lars, as persons devoid of courage and manliness. By their own admission they are despicable creatures doing the bidding of their superior, a man who played an active part in “inter vention against the Soviet Republic, tor. asked Thornton method used in “U. P.” EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF LIES TO MAKE A WAR In a private letter toa friend in the United: States European correspondent of the United Press writes: “In all the newspsper offices of London and Paris. they are consciously and systematically trying to build up a war with all the hysterical propaganda at their disposal, U.P. correspondent I am constantly forced to send out ma- terial that is exaggerated and Asa warped beyond recognition : os | that is plan lie—stuff that makes me sick in the atomaals |