RUSSIAN TERRORISTS
PROMINENT MEN ACCUSED KIROV MURDER AFTERMATH. SENTENCE OF BANISHMENT. [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.] (Reecived 9 a.m.) LONDON, December 24. A Moscow message says that although the fact is not admitted officially, Zinovieff was arrested with 13 members of the former Opposition party and handed over to the Supreme Court. This action followed the trial of Nikolayeff for the murder of Kirov.
A prominent Soviet official, Zyrokoff, is reported to have been arrested with Zinovieff and Kamoneff. An official statement declares that it had been established that Nikolayeff received his commission to murder M. Kirov from a terrorist underground group called the Leningrad Centre Group. The Government asserts that the letters from Zinovieff were found in the pocket of Medvedieff, head of the Leningrad branch of the Ogpu, when the latter was found shot. These letters implicated Zinovieff. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says that sentences of banishment in lieu of death have been imposed on Zinovieff and Kamoneff and five of their associates, because of their membership of Lenin’s prerevolutionary ban and their long record of revolutionary work during (he Czarist regime, in which all suffered imprisonment. It is a mistake to suggest that Stalin’s regime is jeopardised or even challenged, says the correspondent.
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Northern Advocate, 26 December 1934, Page 6
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