REIGN OF TERROR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1935, Page 13

REIGN OF TERROR.

SOVIET ACCUSES TROTSKY. LINKS EXILE WITH PLOT. MOSCOW, June 28. Leon Trotsky, famed Russian exile, was publicly accused to-day of inciting terrorists to strike at the Soviet Union. Stanislas Kossior. member of the political bureau of the Communist party listed Trotsky (now living in Norway), Leo Kameneff and Gregory Zinovieff as instigators of the assassination of Sergei Kiroff, Dictator Stalin's closest friend, at Leningrad last December 1.

Lists Trotsky as Enemy. Reporting to the Ukraine Communist party, which he heads, Kossior said evidence of Trotsky's direct connection with Kiroff's death had been unearthed in connection with the recent expulsion from the party of Abel Ycnukidze, former secretary of the all-union central executive committee. He listed the exiled former head of the Soviet Army as an outright enemy of the Soviet Union. "There no longer is any difference between Trotsky and the White guards," he said. Investigation had proved, he said, that Zinovieff and Kameneff, former Soviet officials who have been held in prison since shortly after Kiroff's death, "not only inspired the shooting of Kiroff but were direct organisers of the murder and acted in full agreement with Trotsky." Foes of Regime Given Jobs. Yenukidze was expelled from official positions and the Communist party, Kossior said, because he gave enemies of the Soviet, including members of the former nobility, government positions. He said Trotsky, "from his foreign hideout," openly urged violence "and appealed for terroristic acts against the leaders of our party." Trotsky, minus his beard, arrived at Oslo recently to spend six months in Norway for his health. Hβ was reported to be seriously ill.