GENSATIONAL revelations were made at the trial to-day of Zinovieff, Kamenev and fourteen other alleged counterrevolutionaries on a charge of having been parties to the murder, in 1934, of M, Kirov, one of M. Stalin's chief lieutenants, and also of being in touch with a section of the German secret police with the object of espionage, terrorism and a plot to assassinate the Soviet Dictator himself, All the accused, according to the Soviet leaders alleged to have parti-official Soviet agency, have pleaded cipated in counter-revolutionary activities.
One of the main features of to-day's Following Zinovief's action, Kam-Proceedings was the admission of ency confessed to having played a Fritz David, one of the accused, that leading role in the organization. of he intended to shoot M. Stalin at the: the killing of Kirov, while Valetin th Congress of the Komintern.
Olberg, another of the accused, Another feature was that Zinovie described an attempt to Kill M. Stalin, and the other accused did not attempt 'AS a result of the evidence at toto conceal the ramifications of. the day's session, the entire Soviet press plot. Zinoviel? declared that the man, has started a violent agitation against Smimoff, was the most active and the defendants and is demanding the persistent adherent of terror. Tu death penalty. reply to a question. he affirmed thal The prosecution is said to be mak-was part of his plan to pretend ing "determined efforts to" prove complete loyalty to the Party and, at there is a link between Nazi Ger-the same time, clandestinely to continue terrorist activities, many and the alleged Trotsky. Zinovieft plot.
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