ASSASSINATION.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2644, 12 May 1923, Page 5

ASSASSINATION.

SOVIET DELEGATES AT LAUSANNE FIRED OH.

MURDERER CALMLY AWAITS POLICE. FATE OF UNINVITED QUESTS. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) LAUSANNE, May 10. Three Russian delegates to the Lausanne Conference, M. M. Vorowsky, Ahrens and Stunner, were dining at the Hotel Cecil, when people at a neighbouring table suddenly fired ten shots. M. Vorowsky was killed, and the others gravely woiuulcd. THE TRAGEDY DESCRIBED. BY ONE OF THE VICTIMS. (Received Friday, 8 p.m.) LAUSANNE. May 10. M. Ahrens is dying. The name of the third man is Dimitricff, net Stunner. M. Dimitrieff is the secretary to the delegation. He is severely wounded. The murderer, having emptied his revolvers, turned to the horror-stricken guests, and said, calmly; “Well, call the police. I don’t regret what I have done.” He then awaited the arrival of the police, with whom he left the hotel quietly. The name of the assassin is Conrad. He is aged SS, and was formerly a captain in the Russian army. He had only just arrived at Lausanne from Zurich. At first it was stated that the assas. sin belonged to the Fascistl, but this is now denied. It is known, however that the Fascisti tried two days ago to per. suade M. Vorowsky to leave Lausanne, They called at his hotel, but he refused to see them, as it was known that they were using threats.

M. Ahrens, after" the shooting, made a statement, as follows: —“When we sat down to dinner I noticed an elegantly dressed young man seated two tables away. He was drinking continuously small glasses of cognac. When he rose I saw the muzzle of his revolver point, ing directly at the back of M, Vorowsky’s head. M. Vorowsky was shot at point-blank range, and was killed instantly. I tried to grab the revolver, but was too late. I was shot in the leg and fainted, and fell over M_ Vorowsky’s corpse.” M. Ahren’s condition improved at midnight, when he made another state, ment. ‘‘l formally accuse the Swiss Government of being accomplices in this because, despite measures against us, no precaution was taken to safeguard us,” SERIOUS ACCUSATION TO MAKE. AGAINST SWISS GOVERNMENT. (Received Friday, 9 p.m.) LAUSANNE, May 11. M. Ahrens also accuses the secre. lariat of the Conference of doing every, thing to render the situation of the Russian delegates difficult The chief of the Fascism movement in Lausanne states that after communication with the Swiss Government, they decided not to put into action their threat, made last Sunday, of the expulsion of M. Vorowsky.

Conrad, white waiting for the police, lighted a cigarette. On being question, ed as to why ho murdered M. Vorowsky, he replied: "To avenge my father and uncle, who were, the victims of Bolshevism. Humanity is rid of a monster.”

M. Vorowsky was known to be one of M. Lenin's tools. When the Bolsheviks, with M. Lenin at their head, went from Switzerland to Russia, M, Vorowsky was left in Stockholm, eu route. The money sent from Berlin for the first Bolshevik rising in June, IS 17, went through M. Vorowsky’s hands. He • later was the Bolshevik representative in Stockholm, and was transferred to Rome. He attended the first Lansanne Conference with M. Tchitcherin. M. Vorowsky arrived for the present conference a week ago, uninvited, and had since been engeged in an acrimonious correspondence with the Conference for admission. also with Swiss authorities, whom, he alleged, treated him with lack of respect. During the Fascist coup in Rome lost September, Fascist! entered his house and endeavoured to force him to drink a pint of castor oil, but he was saved from this ordeal at the lust moment.