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Show RUSSIAN DELEGATE shotj m OPINION MAY HOLD PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSASSINATION Conradi Asserts He Murdered Head Of Soviet Group to Avenge Atrocities of Bolshevik Bolshe-vik Terror Lausanne. The murder of M. Yor-ovsky, Yor-ovsky, head of the Russian soviet delegation to the Near East conference, confer-ence, by Maurice Alexander Conradi, a Swiss who once served in the Russian Rus-sian army, has stirred Switzerland ns has no single event since the assassination assas-sination of Empress Elizabeth of Austria nt Geneva in 189S. Conradi, who was seized by the police in Hotel Cecil after he had killed Vorosky anA wounded two attaches at-taches of the Russian delegation,con-tinues delegation,con-tinues to maintain that he acted alone in an effort to avenge his father and uncle for the mistreatment they received re-ceived at the hands of the bolshevik during the "red terror." The general impression in Near East conference circles is that the excitement caused by Thursday evening's eve-ning's events will not directly affect the outcome of the negotiations. Vor. ovsky was not regarded as an official Russian delegate. Switzerland keenly feels the position posi-tion in which Conrad's act places her, and fears that world opinion may hold local patriotic associations materially ma-terially responsible, inasmuch as the Swiss Facist organization recently ordered or-dered Vorosky to leave the country or take the consequences. The immediate im-mediate implication in the latter alternative, al-ternative, spokesmen of the Fasclsti assert, meant nothing more serious than that Vorosky would be doused with castor oil and run out of the country as a penalty for his attacks on the Swiss government for its refusal re-fusal to grant a visa to a soviet courier cour-ier to Lausanne. |