HORRORS OF RUSSIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 December 1924, Page 5

HORRORS OF RUSSIA.

WOMAN’S THREAT. dsf CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—OOPYEIGHT PARIS, Dec; 26. Mrs. Marie Dickson, the Russian widow of an American, who was arrested a fortnight ago when she waited with a- revolver,; in' her hand at the Russian Embassy to kill M. Krassin (the new Soviet Ambassador), was to-day sentenced by the Correctional court to three weeks in prison 1 for carrying a weapon.. She will, upon her release, be deported from France. f The Communist attorney, (M. Berthon), representing the, : Embassy, told the court that she was also the widow of the notorious Russian agent arid provocateur (Azeff), whom the Syndicalists assasishated as >a traitor. The court took cognisance of this, but refused to permit M, Berthon to enter a complaint, explaining that the woman was being, tried only for carrying a weapoa Mrs. Dickson’s counsel (Maitre Garcon) painted a tragic > picture of the horror, of revolution and the euffernig of the Russian masses under the Soviet* regime, at which the prisoner interjected: “I wanted to save France from this same terror.” The court, in pronouncing sentence, saicl that even were M. Krassin responsible for all the suffering of the revolution,. it would not give the prisoner the right to attempt- to kill him in French territory.