TROTSKY’S SUCCESSOR.
MOLD AVIAN PEASANT’S SON. TWICE CONDEMNED TO DEATH. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Jail. 31, 9 a.m.) MOSCOW, Jan. 30. Michael Franse, appointed to succeed Trotsky, is the son of a Moldavian peasant. He participated in the Moscow insurrection, and was prosecuted during the Czarist regime five times and twice condemned to death. Finally he was sentenced to 10 years in Siberia, but escaped and organised revolutionary cells in the Czarist army in 1915. He later commanded the armies against Gentrals Koitchak and Wf angel. Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1925, Page 5
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87TROTSKY’S SUCCESSOR. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1925, Page 5
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