Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-05-14
|I|LS OF PLANS
LEN|NE.
| TROTzKY TOLD.
~ A.sociated Pressl

IN. Associated Press)
.cw, May 14-Particulars Of
.omnts to assassinate Premier
and Leon Trotsky in 1918
E,,st been revealed in a pamph-
IN has been published here by
menoff- vasilieff, formerly head
fighting detachment of the So
Revolutionary party, organizer
attempted assassination and
AGENT of the Cheka, or secret
las owing to Semenoff's. reve-
and charges that a number
Social Revolutionary party and
suspects we're arrested and i'm
ID by the State Political De-
sut and also that members of
autral Executive Committee OF
Eocial Revolutionary party are
bout to be tried before a Boil
tribunal.
announcement that these trials
about to be held has evoked nu-
protests from the Socialist
of Sweden, of which Premier
mo is the head, and also from
amsterdam and Vienna Interna-
and Arthur Henderson, head
British Labor party. The at
to assassinate Lenine and
" we're the signals for the So
Bolshevits "Red terror. which
Russia thousands of lives.
Inc and Trotzky escaped but
Sther Bolshevik officials, M. Vol
ky, Commissar of the Press af-
and NJ. Ouritzky, Commissar
ections were murdered.
enoff, who is now supposed to
the service of the Cheka, tells
pamphlet of the military and
e activities of the Social Rev.
barry party in Russia in 1917
bis, and denounces well-known
s of the opposition parties,
Of whom have been in the Che
sOns for nearly two or three
enOff says that in the begin
pf 1918 it was decided to ere
Lenine and Trotzky in Mos
Did G. E. Zinovieff, president Of
bird Internationale, Volodarsky
uritzky in Petrograd. 1t was
Resolved to kill Lenine and
y by administering poison in
or by sending up a physi-
Tho should immaculate them with
4ectiOus disease.
plan, however, was abandoned
to some difficulties Of a tech
character.
lew plan to kill them by shoot
Jas arrived at after prolonged
sioh and full arrangements
& made. Both Lenine and Trot-
ere watched for a long time as
Pin movements and habits. Le-
Tas Overtaken when he left a
@en's meeting at a factory out
Pie town and shot at with poi
bullets by a revolutionary
y Kaplan.
attempts upon Trotzky failed.
fas several times ambushed at
OscOw railway terminus at the
y the departure of his train but
! very last minute he always
ed his mind and went from a
zeat station than the one fixed
Rhand. One attempt on his life
BY derailing one of his trains
Rzan in which he, however, was
resent.
preparations of money from pri-
persons, as well as Soviet insti-
were organized by the fight
achments as means to carry
PR work.
y chief aim, however, to pre-
Fne Germans from carrying off
I'D paid to them by the Bolshe-
under the Brest-Litovsk treaty,
*nOt carried through. The plan
i derall the train which carried
Pld to the border. The plotters,
10 the assistance of one rail-
~ made all necessary arrange
For the purpose of derail-
#ey selected a billy spot several
iFom Moscow. But the engine
JAILED to slow down the train
Nv the attempt to take place as
pre-arranged.
ne summer of 1920, at the time
war with Poland, Semenoff,
pOrmer, who at that time was a
II Of the minority section of
VClal Revolutionary party, offer
services of his little group for
*dillZatlOn yvo1.l Of tba roor nf