The arrest of two former high Soviet officials in connection with the recent assassination of M. Serge! Kirov was confirmed in an official radio announcement from. Moscow, the Warsaw correspondent of the "Dally Express" reported 10-day.
The two leuders in custody are M. Gregory Zinoviett, one-time Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain and former Secretary-General of the Third Internationale, and M. Leo Kamenev, former head of the Concessions Committee and former Ambassador to Ttaly.
'M, Joseph Stalin, strong man of Soviet Russia, ordered the men tw be arrested as they walked out of the fates of the Kremlin following a conference with Stalin himself.
shall not rest until the last man in the Zinovielt Kamenev opposition thas been destroyed," M. Stalin declared in a prepared statement read over the radio.
The arrest of the two former Soviet caders, both of whom had been twice Banished from Russia for position to the Stalin regime, occurred on Thursday. They were directly charged with the murder of M. Kirov.—United Press.
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