PLOT ADMITTED
PLAN TO SHOOT M. STALIN.
INCITEMENT OF A GERMAN.
TROTSKY AND SON CONVICTED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) a MOSCOW, August 19. Before glim-faced judges of the Supreme Court, presided over by M- Ulrich, who tried the; Metro-Vickers case in 1933, Zinoviev, Kamonev, Smirnov and Holamann all pleaded guilty to an indictment which stated that they inspired a German, Fritz David, in an attempt to shoot M. Stalin at a congress in July, 1935. The plot failed because David was unable to take aim. Similar plots were aimed against Voroshilov and other Communist leaders.
David is reported to have confessed that M. Leon Trotsky gave him instructions. He also met an agent of the German secret police who arranged with Kamonev the details of the movement to seize power
Thei court convicted Trotsky, also his son, of participation in the plot. If Trotsky enters the Soviet he will be liable to immediate arrest and trial.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 264, 20 August 1936, Page 5
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160PLOT ADMITTED Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 264, 20 August 1936, Page 5
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