REPORT DENIED
DEATH OF ZINOVIEV
(Received November 30, noon.) LONDON, Nov. 29.
It is reported from Berlin, that M. Zinoviev is dead, but a Moscow message officially denies the report.
Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev was horn at Elisavelgrad in 1883. in the Ukraine, and studied chemistry and law at Berne University. In 1903 he first associated himself with Lenin in the work of Bolshevik propaganda. From 1917 to 1926, when he lost power, he was one of the principal figures in the Soviet Government, being appointed president of the Communist, Tnterntionnl in 1919. During the general election in Britain in October, 1924, an incendiary letter addressed to the British Communist Party, and supposedly signed by Zinoviev, became public, with important political results. the Labor Government being decisively defeated, and the AngloIkissian treaties repudiated.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17950, 30 November 1932, Page 7
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