Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 2 | Moscow Accuses Tokio Ambassador

MOSCOW ACCUSES TOKIO AMBASSADOR i MOSCOW, Aug. It UP) Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemltsu was accused today by Pravda, tha official communist party newspaper, of abusing his diplomatic rank by spreading secret anticommunist propaganda in the soviet capital. """Ar Zht lame tlm the- Russian newspaper Soviet Siberia reported jthe execution of 34 convicted spies I and wreckers at Irkitsk after military mili-tary trials on charges of terrorist activity for the Japanese intelli- gence service. The accusation followed a statement state-ment which Shigemitsu handed to foreign correspondents here disputing dis-puting Russian charges that Japanese Japa-nese organised and protected a white Russian raid on tse soviet consulate consu-late in Tientsin, China.