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...Poland. The Government of Polish Dictator Josef Pilsudski flatly refused last week, a demand by the Soviet Government that one of its agents be allowed to participate at the trial in Warsaw of Boris Kovenko, the confessed assassin of M. Vojkov. How dared small Poland thus flout great Russia...
Meanwhile, in Warsaw, Assassin Boris Kovenko declared to the Special Tribunal which sat upon his case: "I killed M. Vojkov, but I did not kill him as a person. I killed him because of what the Bolshevists have done in Russia...
...Court then heard evidence tending to prove: 1) that although 19-year-old Assassin Kovenko is now an anti-Communist he once served in the Soviet Army; 2) that his character is "highly excitable" but "entirely honorable...
...hearing proceeded from 10 a.m. until midnight, almost without a break. Then Assassin Kovenko was sentenced to life imprisonment, the Court, however, recommending that this be commuted to 15 years. In Moscow. Promptly, the Soviet Workers' Gazette, Moscow, headlined: "Unheard-of mild sentence, which Kovenko hears with beaming face. Murder for which the Polish Government is responsible covered by Polish court...
...newspapers frankly condoned the murder. At Vilna, Poland, home city of Murderer Kovenko, the White Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf. Immediately the Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...