ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS ON TRIAL.
FOR MURDER OF RUSSIAN MINISTER. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 7, 11.5 a.m.) LAUSANNE, November 6. The trial has begun of Polinnine and Conradi for the assassination ot M. Vorowski in Genoa on May 11 of this year. Polinnine admitted appointing himself the assassin of Vorowski because ho considered the latter to be an eminent Bolshevik. Conradi admitted having planned to shoot M. Krassin In Berlin and M. Tehitcherin at Lausanne, but failed in both cases. Conradi dramatically added : “My father and uncle were murdered by Bolshevik bandits, who were received at Genoa by the Ministers of many countries, including Air Lloyd George, instead of being spat upon.” Polinnine told how be had been twice sentenced to death in Russia, but had escaped.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17190, 6 November 1923, Page 10 (Supplement)
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