Assassins on View at Palace Home

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 13, 16 January 1936, Page 10

Assassins on View at Palace Home

| HEROES OF AN AMAZING MUSEUM ■ A palace home fur aged bombtliiuwurs aud assassins lies within a few miles uf one of the world's greatihcy arc pari ui a living museum. ' vnmiren arc taken io sec them us a treat 1 and adults pay giamv Lu listen Lu ui nuw lumuus people were ussassinui- ‘ ed. And each aged bomb-thrower is as jeaiuus uf ills public as any pampered .xunywood film star. 1 jeugene Lyons, in his new bouk, ‘ •‘Jiudcrn .vtuscuw, leils uf this • strange place wnicii is situated at the 1 cud of a badly paved highway a few J Hours’ journey from Aloscuw. He tells ui ••unrepentant uctogenar-j a iaus” glowing with the pride of work performed, uciiing to tell now they help I e cd to assassinate or actually threw the j s bombs that killed people during the; a xsarist regime. e They live in the palace of the former I Princes Sheremilev, dispatched by S f members uf the strange company and ‘ they talk ui their strange exploits m a a hall frum the walls of which pictures e of many ui their victims gaze down. Alany of them are the only people d left in Russia who are allowed to talk ’• openly in disagreement with the Soviet ® pulley. Only a few uf them are Communists —the rest are Anarchists, Nihilists, aud Bolshevists. They have purchased the privilege by past services to the cause. Some of them are fabled heroes, and e the ordinary citizen does not suspect s that they are ali?x J Their families live with them, and 3 the living museum uf assassins, there2 fore, has a display dating from the 1860’s to the 1930 s. Then, in another part uf Russia, is a 5 man generally thought tu be dead. Zinoviev, the man whose forged signature wrecked a British Government. Nuw, ho whose voice was thunder ’ reverberating throughout the world, J speaks in a irightened whisper. He spoke on the telephone to Air : Lyons,, who managed to find him after months of effort. ‘‘A weak, quivering, frightened voice,” says Air Lyons, “answered me. ‘Your supposed death is being headlined over the world. Can't 1 see you so that I can say that it is untrue,” ” ‘No . . . no,’ came the weak voice, ‘I must think it over. 1 must consult . . . . ’ “ ‘How is your health? How do you ”‘I can't say how 1 feel. I can’t say anything until 1 consult ... ’ ” The book gives a vivid picture of* Russia. The writer has seen and heard many things in his six years’ stay, and he tells them with frankness. He takes another lid off the Moscow pot. But he still cannot make up his mind what is noinz to happen to Russia.