LAUSANNE CRIME

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1923, Page 5

LAUSANNE CRIME

ASSASSINS OF VOROWSKI

PLEAD MOTIVE OF REVENGE

VICTIMS OF BOLSHEAIK TERROR,

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(Received 7th November 11 a.m.)

LAUSANNE, 6th November

The trial lias begun of Polinnino and Conradi for the assassination of Vorowski, Soviet delegate to the Lausanne Conference on 10th May last. Poiinnine admitted appointing himself assassin of Vorowski, because he considered the latter to be an eminent Bolshevik.

Conradi admitted having planned to ■shoot Krassin in Berlin and Tchitcherin at Lausanne, but failed in both cases. Conradi dramatically added: "My father and undo were murdered by 'the Bolshevik bandits, who were received at Genoa by Ministers of many countries, including Mr. Lloyd George, instead of being spat upon." Polinnino told how he had been twice sentenced to death in Russia, but escaped.

While attending the Lausanne Pea* Conference in May last, with two other Russian delegates, Vorowski was shot dead while dining with his party at his hotel. Conradi, having emptied his revolver, said calmly: "Well, call the policy I don't' regret what I have done. Conradi is 38 years old, and was formerly a captain in the Russian Army.