KIROV MURDER PLOT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18587, 22 December 1934, Page 5

KIROV MURDER PLOT

HIGH OFFICIALS BLAMED

DRASTIC REPRISALS

BRITISH LABOR PROTEST

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(Received Dec. 2-2, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, Dec. 21

The Trades Union Congress and Labor national executive have jointly issued a statement, that while appreciating the natural outraged feelings of the Soviet, due to ths assassination of M. Kirov, they are profoundly shocked and alarmed by the subsequent reprisals in the form of widespread summary executions, and express the opinion that all those arrested - should have public trials and opportunities for legal defence. They have asked the Soviet Ambassador to receive a deputation on the subject. The Daily Express’ Warsaw correspondent says an official announcement from a Moscow radio states that M. Zinaviev and M. Kamenev were to blame for M. Kirov’s murder. M. Stalin summoned both to the Kremlin, and when they left the Ogpu placed them under arrest.

The radio announcer added: “Now we know who and where the oncmv

M. Stalin says he will not rest until the last man of the Zinovicv-Kannmev opposition has been destroyed. The Daily Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent says that the 103 persons recently shot for alleged White terrorism are already forgotten. The stage is now cleared for the real disclosure of the Kirov murder plot. The official press is cautiously disclosing the fact that an organised Fascist and terrorist group lias been discovered within the former Bolshevik party, the members of which now admire Nazi Germany.