The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-26
SENTENCE.
OF TERRORIST.
IS COMMITTED
SaUinkOf Was Agent of
Allied PowerS
(sy Rosta News Asency,)


MOSCOW (By MaiI).-Boris
Savinkoff, a leading member of
the Social Revolutionary party,
who was sentenced to death for
his crimes against the Soviet
Republic, crimes which included
attempts at the assassination of
Lenin, Trotsky and other Soviet
chiefs, had the sentence COM
muted to ten years imprison-
ment and finally to a complete
pardon.
Savinkoff, Russian terrorist
and leading agent of the Allied
governments in t h cir war
against Soviet Russia, recently
visited his native country in
disguise and under an assumed
name but was captured by the
Soviet police and brought be-
fore military tribunal.
On the 23rd of August, Savinkoff
was served with the act of accusation,
and within seventy-two hours, his trial
was opened in the Military Collegium
of the Supreme Court.
The announcement of Savinkoff's
arrest created a sensation not alone
in Russia, but thruout Europe as he
was perhaps the most prominent agent
of the British and other governments
in their conspiracies to stir up civil
war in Russia, since 1917
Public Interested.
Public opinion in the capital and
turnout the Soviet Republics is fol.
lowing with undated attention the
case of Boris Savinkoff, which has re-
vealed a striking picture of the close
connections between the white coun-
ter-revolutionary movement and for
eign Intervention and support against
the Soviet, a connection which was
known, of course, but as to the actual
proportions of which was difficult to
have an exact idea.
Boris Savinkoff had been a leading
member of the Socialist Revolution
airy Party. believer in terror and an
active participant of a number of dar-
ing attempts against the lives of high
officials and dignitaries of the Tsarist
regime, and among them against
Home Minister Plehve in Petersburg
and Grand Duke Sergius in Moscow
Pleaded Guilty.
Savinkoff's trial opened on the 9th
inst. To the question whether he is
pleading guilty the accused answered
in the affirmative without any hesita-
ton. He then went on to give frank
Ievidence dwelling on all the details
and stating that he was now utterly
disappointed in and disgusted with all
the counterrevolutionary groups, that
he despised them now and had lost
faith in the sincerity of the interven-
tionists and. finally, that he recognize
ed that all his own anti-Soviet activi-
ties had been mistaken, while right
was on the side of revolution.
Savinkoff told the court in detail
about his many negotiations with
Messrs. Millerand, Poincare, Noulens,
Lloyd George, Churchill, Maszarik,
Pilsudsh and others, having met some
of them in Paris and London, where
he represented Kolchak and Denikin.
Thru personal contact he had come
to the conviction that the allies"
aimed but at weakening Russia and
benefitting by the counter-revolution-
larry movements in their own selfish
interests. AS for Russian emigrants
abroad, Savinkoff gave vivid pictures
of the moral decomposition and decay
prevailing among them.
Intervention a Failure.
1t was in the spring, 1928, that the
accused. according to his statement,
saw finally that intervention was no
longer possible that all counter-revo-
lutionary attempts were doomed to