Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-26
ANT|-SOV|ET PLOT
IS LAID TO LONDON
ANDPAR|SAT TRIAL
Confession" of Russian In
CIudes Names of Poincare
and Churchill.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. November 26.-England
and France we're depicted as malevolent
plotters seeking to intervene in Soviet
Russia and overthrow the Communist
regime by Prof. Leonid Ramzin, Con
Tossing" before a revolutionary tribunal,
which is trying him for high treason.
Prof. Ramzin, speaking into a micro
phone which carried his voice to the
farthest reaches of the Communist fed
Grafton, told an amazing story of in
trigue, mentioning casually as co-plot-
tiers with him former President Pom
care of France, Aristide BRAND, French
foreign minister; Col Lawrence" and
Lord Churchill" of England, and other
figures of the two countries.
The defendant, who is the leader of
a group of eight prominent Soviet en-
gineers who are facing death sentences
on their pleas of guilty to the counter
revolutionary conspiracy, declared that
British support to the plot waned after
the second Macdonald regime was es-
tablished in 1929 and relations with the
Soviet were re-established. Thereafter,
he said. the French and border coun-
tries, Poland and Rumania, were the
principal conspirators.
Refers to British Agents.
Contact with British agents in Mos
COW, Ramzin declared, was established
through Col. Lawrence" newspaper
men assuming his reference to be to
Lawrence of Arabia" or Aircraftsman
Shaw of the British Royal Flying Corps
Another British representative, Sir
Philip Wears, he said, once told him
that Lord Churchill was the leading
nf Svnka
ment in England. It was assumed that
he referred to Winston Churchill, for
mer Conservative chancellor of the ex-
chequer, since the first Viscount
Churchill is 70 years old and has not
been active IN British politics for some
time.
Ramzin told Of meeting a Gen. jan
Vile Of the French general stan In
Paris and, in company with a former
czarist general. Lukomsky, Of discussing
with him plans for Intervention in
Soviet Russia. They agreed that force
Of 500, 900 or 100000 men, to be fur
nished principally by Rumania, Poland
and Jugoslavia, with aid from White
Russian sources, would be sufficient for
their purpose, once the plotters had
been able to pave the way inside the
Soviet Union.
Never Saw POincare.
The defendant. who was surrounded
by battery Of suffering white lights
and movie cameras, never faltered in
his self-condemning accusation of the
foreign statesmen. He declared that he
was positive. although he had never
seen either Poincare or Churchill, that
they were the brains of the intervention
move III their two countries. He al
legged also that the industrial party"
of which he was the head, was the
actual representative Of the French
general staff in the Russian espionage.
He reiterated today information given
in his two hours and a half on the
stand yesterday that the Summer of
1880 was the time set for the interven-
ton, but that, due to various inter
national complications, it was postponed
tc 1881.
Another demonstration and parade in
front of the House of Columns, where
the trial OF the eight engineers is TAX
ing part, was planned for this after
noon. Housemaids, who were getting a
day Of for the purpose, and ONCE work.
ers were expecteS to be the chief par
Elephants.