MURDER OF BOLSHEVIK.
LAUSANNE TRIAL OPENS. ASSASSINS PLEAD REVENGE. A. and N.Z. I»A-TJSANNE. Not. 6. The trial has begun of Polinnise and Conradi, who arc charged with the assassination of Vorowski, a Russian Soviet delegate who war- .hot when attending tho Near East conference at Lausanne. Polinnise admitted appointing himself the assassin of Vorowski, because he considered the latter to be an eminent Bolshevik. Conradi admitted having planned to shoot Krassin in Berlin and Tchitoherin at Lausanne, but failed in both cases. Conradi dramatical added : "My father and uncle were murdered by Bolshevik bandits, who were received at Genoa by the Ministers of many countries, including Mr. Lloyd George, instead of being spat upon." Polinnise told how he had been twice sentenced to death in Russia, but escaped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18551, 8 November 1923, Page 9
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