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i YEAR
CHRE SIIANSTED.
V.
L. U. 86
A,
WEUDNESDAY,
1670
BMAY,
1923
some
the
murder
of Vorovshv
is
re-
garded
as
a
tragic
sequel
to
his
at-
tacks
on
the
Swiss
Goit
for
refus-
i"o
&
vian
lof
@
Rasslan
courier
to
Berlin.
The recantly
orcanized
fascisti
took up the martter
and
warned
Vorovs-
ky and his
colleagiies
to leave
lLausanne
by
tomorryw.
Vorovsky
ignored
the
warning.
The
leaders?of
the
fascisti,
however,
disclaimed
rvesponuibility
for
the crime.
They
asserted
that the only
pilan
they
nhad
in
view
was
to
kidnap
Vorovsky
tomorrow
an'
eseort
him
to
the
Italian
fromtier.
'The
pssassin
Con-
raci
tonight
toid
the poiice
that
he
was
born
in Petrograd,
of
8 viss
parentage.
fle
said
he
served
as
a
capiain
in the
Russian
army
during
the
world
war.
He is
an
engineer.
The
holel
marnager
said
that -when
Conradi
surrendered
t)
him he
told
«
¥
thz
murler
by
the Rus-
sians
of his
Uacle
and
brother,
adding
Iam happy
to have
avensed
my Uncle
and
brother
David, the grear
Swiss patri-
ot
who saved
the Canton
of Vaud.
He
saved
one
Canton,
but
|
have
saved
all
humanity.”’
Corunt
Massigli,
Secretary
oif the
Lausanne
Conference,
went
to the
scene
of the
shooting
tonight
and
made
exhaustive
enquiries,
The
official
at-
titude of
the
peace
conference
is
that
the Russians
were
not
here
in any offlnal
canacity
and
that
thev
obtained
their
visas
before
the
Swiss
Govt.,
was
in-
formed
of
the
conditions
under
which
they
could
be
invited
to
partidipate
in
the
conivrence.
Lth2
Murder
however
is pro‘oundly deplored
by the
conferonce
and
no
one
is
more outspoken in conde
an-
i 1i thao
the
furkisn delegation.
watle
M. Vorovsks
came
to Lausanne
to aiten.d
the Near
lBas:
Conference,
h:
was
ng
recoznized
s
a
delegate,
as
the
Aliies
had
made
ussia’s
partieipation
in
thz
resumied
couierence
contingent
upon th2
Soviet
aceepiance
of
the
sirzits
conven-
tion,
drawn
up at
the first mesting.,
As
a
result
of
ithis
non-recogaitira
of ils
status
a3
a
delegate,
M.
Vorovsky
had
becu
in controversy,
both
with
the
con
ferencz2
heads
and
the
Swiss
Govi.,
chargiayg
tnat
the
latter
acted
unfairly
and pariially,
in direciing
its
ilepresen
tatives
in Beclin
to retuse
a Vis 2 10
dov-
iet
Courier
on
his
way
to
Switzerlan!l
from Moseow.
I’ e Swiss
fascisti
Injeci-
ed
themseives
lato
the
siwaatn
eadly
this week,
when
they
issued
a
statemeot
assertinz
that
Vorovsky,
because
of
ils
condemnatica
oi the Swiss Govt’s. activi,
must
b 2 deported.
The
statzment
adi-
ed that the [Facisti
were adojual=ly ara - |
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Lausanne,
May
10th.—M.
Vorovsky,
!
2y unbidden
grest
from
Soviet
Russia
at
!
t.. 0 Lausanne
Conference,
lies
dead
to-
|
nicht,
slain
by
a Swiss,
formerly
an offi-
|
cer
in th2 Ras=ian
servize,
and
two of his
|
[ {sutenants
are
saviously
wounded
with
'
two bullets
in
their
bedies.
One
of the
|
wounded
is terman
Ahversy,
Bolshevist
|
{rom Berlin.
who
was
the
Russia.
press
|
acoont
at
both
the
first
and
second
Lav-
|
sanne
conferences.
the other
is J. Dlj-
|
wilowsky,
Veorovsky's
young
Russian
|
“.epetary.
The
assarzin,
Maurice
Alex-
|
sy
Canradi
whose
home
wa: aft
the
|
c.rion of garr
sons, thit
the
thrae
Rus-
sians
while they
wer: dining
at
the
ho-
te. Ceeil.
heac
quarte sos
the
Russian
deieration.
Most
of
ihe
gu-sts
in
the
d.,ping
room
iad
fri.ed
ainrer
when
|
the
assassin
drew
bLie
revoiver
and
ad-
vaneing quickly fived
unou
the Russians,
Ine frat
huilel
stracy
Vorovsky
behind
|
the ear.
iie
iell
across
tne
table
spi
|
ateerea
no
vod
and
prebably
Fe
died
|
immediately
Ahrenss,
who
is
always
|
arm>d,
drew h's
weapon
after
beiagshot
twice.
Before
he
eould
use it,
a waiter
|
seize¢
his
arm,
apparenuy
fear ng
for
|
the safety of the
guests
who
were crowd-
|
ing the doorway.
The assassin,
acwever,
|
ke pt on firing, shooling
at
Ahkrensa,
and
.
|
also Didwilowsky, then he
walked
up
to
|
the proprietor
of
the hotzl,
surrendered
|
Bis
weapon
aud
said
ne
woule
wait
|
tor
the
pohea.
Panic
pervaded
the
|
hotel.
It
was
half
2u
hour
before
the
|
palice
arrived.
Meanwaile
the
'voand-
|
m? mén
had
been
carried
te
their
rooms
|
ingan
uncouscions
staie,
but
Ahrensa
:
recovered
his
senses
€3
say,
S Switger-
jand
wiit
pay
dearly
io~
this’”?
By
No
112
and
that evervthing
was ready
to enable
them
to deal with the Scviet
I¢llesenta-
tive uniess
he left the ecuntry
of hizs
own
accord.
Upen
his keing spprised
of this
statement
M. Voiovsky dzciared
he would
ignore
the warning.
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biovght
to publie notice
that
according
to the
scheme
of
Amortiza-
tion
for St. Thomas
Harbor 4%
1 oan of
1910,
the
drawing by
the Notary I'ublic,
2t
‘lhomas
of
twelve
bonds
at
Fraves
1,000
has
teken
nlee,
resulting
in
the
drawing oi the
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will
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interest.
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9 May. 1923,
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