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TRIAL IN RUSSIA. INTELLECTUALS CHARGED. PROCEEDINGS BROADCAST. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright LONDON, March 9. The trial has been commenced at Kharkov, Russia, of 4 5 intellectuals, including 20 of the most prominent scholars and scientists in the Ukraine. The defendants are charged with engineering a counter revolution. The trial is being conducted in the Opera House amid a blaze of publicity. Tens of thousands of people are to lie given an opportunity of seeing and hearing the proceedings for they arc being filmed and broadcast by wireless. It is alleged that the 45 accused persons were the ringleaders in a conspiracy to free the Ukraine from the yoke of the Soviet. They are charged with preparing for an armed revolt in the coming spring and with discussing plans to assassinate Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party, and Voroshiloff, Commissar of the Army and Navy. It is stated that the accused received funds for their purpose from Poland and from Russians in Paris and Berlin. Professor Serge Jefremow, head of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, is accused of being Hie leader of the conspirators and of using the academy as headquarters.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17966, 11 March 1930, Page 8
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