Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-05-17
CIVEDETAILS
OF ATTEMPT TO
KILL S0VIETS
Two Other Bolsheviki Off
GERS Murdered, Accord
ing to Pamphlet.
by The Associated Press.

e. ~ ASSS''
Moscow, May 17-Particulars Of the
attempts to assassinate f.e.nler I.e-
nine and Leon. Tratzky in 1913 have
just been revealed in Il pamphlet
which has been published here by NJ.
Semenoff-Nasilieff, formerly head OF
the fighting detachment of the Social
Revolutionary party, organizer of the
attempted assassination and now am
agent of the Cheka. or secret police.
1t was owing to Semenoff's revela-
tions and charges that d number of
members of the Social Revolutionary
party and other suspects were arrest
ed and imprisoned by the state polit-
ical. department and also that mem
bers of the central executive COM
mittee of the Social Revolutionary
party are now about to be tried be-
fore a. Rolshevist tribunal.
The announcement that the3e trials
were about. to. be held has evoked
numerous protests from the Socialist
party Of Sweden, of which Premier
Branting Is the head. and also from
the Amsterdam and Vienna internal
tionales and Arthur Henderson. head
of the British labor party. The at
tempts to assassinatc Lcnine and
Trotzky We're the signals for the so
called Bolshevist red terror" which
cost Russia thousands of lives.
T' Two We're Murdered.
Lenine and Trotzky escaped, but
two other Bolshevik officials, M. No-
lodarsky. <comnlissar Of the press at
fairs, and NJ. Ouritzky. commissor Of
elections, were murdered.
Semenof. who is now supposed to
be in tho s~ervicei ofithe CheAa, tells
in his pamphlet Of ME military and
lighting activities Of the Social Revo-
%lutionary party in Russia in 1917 md
1918, and d]enounces well-known per-
sons of the opposition parties, Inany
of whom have been in the Cheka pris-
ons for nearly two or three years.
= Ser6enoff says-that in the beginning
Of 1918 it was decided to remove
Lenine and. Trotzky in Moscow m
G.. E. Zinovieff, president of the Third
Internationale, Volodarsky and Ourit-
zky in Petrograd. 1t was first resoly-
cd to kill L.enine and Trotzky by ad-
ministering poison in their food or by
sending up a physician who should
]inoculate them with an infectious
disease.
This plan. however. was abandoned
owing to some difficulties of a, tech
meal character.
ing was arrived at after prolonged
| discussion and full ARRANGEMENTS were
made. Both Leninc and Trotzky were
! watched for 3. long time as to their
movements and habits. Lenine- was
| overtaken when he left a workmen's
| meeting at a factory outside the town
and shot at with poisoned bullets by
a revolutionary. Fanny Kaplan.
The attempts upon Trotzky failed.
| He was several times ambushed at
the MOSCOW railway terminus At the
time of the departure of his train. but
at the very last minute he always
J changed his mind and went from a
| different station than the one fixed
beforehand. One attempt on his life
ended by derailing one Of his trains
to Kazar in which he, however, was
not present.
appropriations Of money from pri-
vate persons, as well as Soviet insti-
tutions, were organized by the fight
ing detaehments as means W carry on
e Protect Informer
Their chief aim. however, was to
prevent the Germans to carry off the
| gold paid to them by the Bolshevists
under the Brest-Litovsk treaty, was
not been carried through. The plan
was to derail the train which car
ried the gold to the border. The
on e railway sssa man. made. ali n-ecessary
arrangements. For the PURPOSE OF
derailing they selected a hifiy SPOT
several miles from MOSCOW. But the
engine driver failed to SLOW down the
train to allow the attempt to take
place as 1t was prsArranged.
In the summer Of 1920, at the time
Of the war with Poland. Hsmenoff,
1.-THE informer, who at that time wal
& member OF the minority section OF
the Social Revolutionary party. Of
fsred the ~services of his little group
Tor Decentralization work. at the rear
Of the Polish; army, The ChekA help.
ed him to- cat through theSfront, but
ne was loon arrested aDn.Sssunder the
kto the Varsow fortress.
Hamenoff then wrote Oto& General
Boris Savinkoff, formerly Russian
minister OF war and arnennbsr cfsthe