PLOT TO MURDER TROTSKY.
INSTIGATED BY SECRET POLICE MOSCOW KNOWS NOTHING. , Received Thursday, 9.15 p.m. * LONDON, Sept. 24. The “Daily, Mail” says news has been received from London .of several attempts. recently to kill M. Trotsky, who is exiled in Turkestan. Trotsky himself revealed the plot in smuggled letters to friends abroad, including one td'H. Bakovsky in which he pleads for help against the Soviet secret police, who, he alleges, are the instigator*. Trotsky describes how his little cottage at Almaata, 250 miles from the nearest railway, was thriee attacked by sharpshooters in the trees, Trotsky and. his son defending themselves with sporting rifles. The cottage was thereafter blockaded .and only gifts of ttfod from local friends are averting starvation. Be says he is denied lights* newspapers and medical advice* Moscow disclaims any knowledge .of the plot and has despatched an investigating commission. . . “Meanwhile,” adds the mail,” it has arrested 33 more oppositionists, till friends of Trotsky.”
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 September 1928, Page 6
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