Evening star., 1934-12-23
SOVIET ADMITS
z|NOv|EFF ARREST
Former Red Leader Among
Is Held in Assassination
of Kiroff.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, December 23-The
Commissariat for Home Affairs an
nounced early today that Gregory
Zinovied and Leo Kameneff, one
were among is members of Zinovieff's
former anti-Soviet group arrested in
connection with the assassination of
Sergei Kiroff.
A special council under the auspices
Of the Commisariat of Home Affairs,
will consider exiling from Russia
Zinovieff. Kamaneff and five others
Of the group concerning whom not
enough data was available for their
immediate trial. 1t was announced.
Earlier the foreign ONCE had re-
fused to confirm or deny reports that
the two were In custody. Soviet news
papers bitterly assailed them as the
instigators Of Kiroff's assassination.
"a dispatch from Warsaw to the
London Express said the two would be
tried by five judges. among them Josef
Stain, whom Zinvieff had opposed,
and added that the death penalty
appears to be a foregone conclusion.")
With the military collegium of the
supreme court prepared to give Leonid
Nicolaieff, identified as Kiroff's slayer,
and Is others speedy trials, the news
paper Pravda charged zinovieff and
Kameneff, long leaders in the first op-
position against the fve-year plan and
socialization of Russia, with plotting
the crime.
The assassination Of Kiron, power
full in Communist party ranks. at
Leningrad December 1, was not &C
cidental." Pravda said editorially.
That shot sounded from the revolver
of one of the Zinovieff opposition"
A preliminary police report previ-
ously had linked the two old-time bol-
shevists, both stanch followers of Leon
Trotsky in advocating the world revo-
luton, with the activities of an as
serted terroristic group accused OF
plotting the Leningrad crime.
The plan, the police report said. was
to "disorganize the leadership of the
Soviet government through terroristic
acts directed against the chief lead
ers of the Soviet regime and thus gain
a change in the present policy in
the spirit Of the so-called Zinovieff-
Trotsky platform"
Pravda, recalling Zinovieff's opposi-
ton to the establishment of the prole-
tartan dictatorship. and his espousal
Of the policy Of cooperating with
bourgeois groups in socializing Russia,
named with the two men reported un-
der arrest I. I. Kotolinoff who, police
said, commissioned Nicolaieff TO shoot
Kiroff
Mentioning others it said belonged
to the group, the newspaper said:
These names once more remind the
Communist party and young Commu-
nists of many years of double-dealing
and anti-Soviet contra-revolutionary
work on the part Of the Zinovieff
opposition.
This opposition has its own history,
full of black pages and full of treach-
erous acts against the party ="
Twice Zinovieff had been expelled
from the ranks of the Communist
party for his alleged obstructionist
tactics, and since 1928 he has held no
important Soviet ofice. Previously he
served in several posts under the
Soviet regime, having been Ambassa-
dor to Rome in 1927.
As Nicolaieff and his alleged asso-
ciates awaited trial. the toll of lives
taken by Soviet justice since the assas-
sination stood at 103, only II of those
known to have been arrested having
escaped execution.