THREAT TO KILL

Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1924, Page 7

THREAT TO KILL

M. KRASSIN IN DANGER,

WOMAN CAUSES SENSATION,

REVENGE ON BOLSHEVIKS,

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 14, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Dec. 13. M. Krassin has presented his credential! as Soviet ambassador to M. Doumergue (the President). A Russian woman, armed with a revolver, who is alleged to have declared her intention of killing Krassin in revenge for the decimation of her family by Bolsheviks, was arrested outside the Russian Embassy. She was sent to gaol on a charge of the illegal possession of arms* The woman told the police that she came to kill Krassin. “It is shameful to allow him to come to Paris,” she said. “If someone does not kill Krassin he wifl kill a lot of others and stir up a revolution in France similar to Russia’s. I waa present during the Russian revolution and saw mothers eat their children. Boisheviks murdered my brother before me.” The woman gave her name as Dickson and said she was a Russian authoress, aged thirty, and the wife of an American,,