ANTI-SOVIET PLOT
DISCLOSURES AT TRIAL
ASSASSINATION SEQUEL
LONDON, Dec. 27. The Daily Express’ Warsaw correspondent says that the trial of Nikolaev and 13 others accused of the murder of M. Kirov began in the military court at Smolyn Institute, Leningrad, the scene of the crime. Tho authorities at the last minute decided that it would be unwise to hold the trial in Moscow as arranged. Two thousand soldiers surrounded the institute, and the prisoners were chained by tbe wrists and ankles. Asked how he pleaded, Nikolaev said: “I freed Russia from a low-down scoundrel; others will finish my work.” He then burst out laughing. The day was treated as a holiday. Processions marched the streets demanding the death of all the Zinoviev group. Journalists are not allowed to be present at the trial. M. Kaganovitch, one of M. Stalin’s chief lieutenants, came from Moscow to watch the trial. The station was cleared while ho detrained. A Moscow radio announced that a large mass of correspondence from Trotsky had been found, giving evidence of the existence of organisations in Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Germany, plotting to upset tho Soviet Government.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18591, 29 December 1934, Page 5
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