PLOTS AGAINST SOVIET

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 341, 23 January 1937, Page 5

PLOTS AGAINST SOVIET

Accused Have All Admitted Their Guilt. Press Association —Copyright. London, January 21. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily Telegraph learns that Karl Radek, Grigori Sokolnikov, Piatakoff and the other former Bolshevik associates of Lenin, accused of organising wrecking groups and plotting to kill Soviet leaders under Trotsky’s order, have all been led to confess the crimes :>nputed to them and which are regarded as even more vile than those for which Zinoviev and his colleagues were shot. The trial will be held in the hall in which the engineers of Metro-Vick-ers Ltd. were tried for sabotage and where Zinoviev was sentenced. Judge Ulrich will again preside and Vlshinsky will again prosecute. Attempts will be made to prove that the accused, even in the early days of the revolution, were engaged in plotting against Lenin. At least six are alleged to have signed a manifesto in October, 1923, supporting Trotsky against Stalin, when Lenin’s brain was already fading to its death. The case will be brought up to date with charges of plotting to restore capitalism and of organising catastrophies, in at least one instance under an order from Germany.