ASSASSINATION IN RUSSIA

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21354, 22 December 1934, Page 15

ASSASSINATION IN RUSSIA

VETERAN BOLSHEVIKS ARRESTED INTERVIEW WITH STALIN STORY OF ORGANISED FASCIST GROUP (UHITID PRESS ASSOCIATION —BT ELECTBIO TELBGBAPH —COrTRIGHT.) (Received December 21, 10.40 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. The Warsaw correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that an official announcement from the Moscow radio station states that Zinoviev and Kamenev were to blame for the Kirov murder. M. Josef Stalin summoned both in the Kremlin and when they left the Ogpu placed them under arrest. The radio announcer added: "Now we know who and where the enemy | is M. Stalin says he will not resl until the last man of the ZinovievKamenev opposition is destroyed." The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that the 103 persons recently shot for alleged White terrorism are already forgotten. The stage is cleared for the real disclosure of the Kirov murder plot. The official press is cautiously disclosing that an organised Fascist terrorist group has been discovered within the former Bolshevik party, the members of which now admire Nazi Germany. [M. Zinoviev was one of Lenin's friends and co-workers. He held important offices in the Communist party until 1927, when, as leader of the Left opposition to the party policy, he was expelled. He was readmitted a year later and since then has been president of the State trading organisation. M. Kamenev is also a veteran Bolshevik. He worked against the Trotsky opposition in 1923 to 1924. but joined the opposition in 1926. He was expelled in 1927, re-entered the party in 1929, and was again expelled in 1932.J