STARTLING CHARGES AGAINST EX-LEADERS
ALL PLEAD GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY AND TREASON. GERMANY AND JAPAN SAID TO BE IMPLICATED IN ASSISTING THE PLOTTERS. TERRORIST GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE COUNTRY. The second great Soviet conspiracy trial is now in process in Moscow. It follows the recent trial and subsequent execution of Zinoviev and other Russians who were found guilty of treason. Chief of the present accused are Karl Radek, Grigori Sokolnikov, Piatakoff, and other former Bolshevik associates of Lenin, all now accused of organising wrecking groups and plotting to kill Soviet leaders under the orders of Leon Trotsky, now an exile in South America bu once Lenin’s co-leader. The trial is being in the hall in which the engineers of Metro-Vickers Ltd. were tried fo.r sabotage and where Zinoviev was sentenced. Judge Ulrich is again presiding, and Vishinsky is again the prosecutor.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 342, 25 January 1937, Page 5
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140STARTLING CHARGES AGAINST EX-LEADERS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 342, 25 January 1937, Page 5
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