TO KILL TROTSKY
PLOT REVEALED IN SMUGGLED LETTERS PLEA FOR HELP AGAINST SOVIET SECRET POLICE MOSCOW DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF AFFAIR (United Press Association. —By Electric Teh'Jira ph.—Copyright.) * (United Service.) (Rec. September 20, 9.15 p.m.) London, September 20. The “Daily Mail” says news has been received in London of several attempts recently to kill Trotsky, who is exiled in Turkestan. Trotsky himself revealed the plot in smuggled letters to friends abroad, including Rakovsky, in which he pleads for help against the Soviet secret police, who he alleges are the instigators of the plot._ Trotsky describes how his little cottage at Almaata. 250 miles from the nearest railway, was thrice attacked by sharpshooters hiding in trees, Trotsky and his son defending themselves with sporting rifles. The cottage was thereafter blockaded, only local friends gifts of food averting starvation. Trotsky says he is denied lights, newspapers, and medical advice. Moscow disclaims knowledge of the plot, and has dispatched an investigating commission. Meanwhile, adds the “Mail,” it has arrested thirty-three more oppositionists, all friends of Trotsky.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 302, 21 September 1928, Page 11
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172TO KILL TROTSKY Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 302, 21 September 1928, Page 11
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