SECRET TRIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 42, 17 January 1935, Page 7

SECRET TRIAL.

SOVIET TERRORIST ACTIVITY. LONDON, Jan. 16. The Da.ily Telegraph’s correspondent at Moscow says the State Prosecutor suddenly announced that, in view of new evidence, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and 17 others are being tried in camera before a military collegium on a charge of underground counter-revolu-tionary activity. Contrary to all reports of their deportation, Zinoviev and Kamenev have been held first here, then at Leningrad, since their arrest. It was first stated that the evidence was insufficient to justify a trial, and that they would be expelled. It is now stated that new evidence establishes their connection with the underground Moscow centre. According to the indictment they cannot be accused directly of consenting in the plotting to murder M. Kirov, but it is proved that they were aware that the terroristic methods of the Leningrad group were fanning the flames. It is believed that the former leaders were spared death in view of their previous services to the party. A Moscow message states that the Tass Cable Agency says that Zinoviev and Kamenev pleaded guilty. Another report states that Zinoviev admitted he was morally responsible for the death of Kirov because of hits 10 years’ association with the anti-revolutionary group. All the accused confessed their association with the Moscow centre.