Show SOVIET LEADER KillS HIMSELF HIi Pain From Strange Dis- Dis Disease Disease ease Causes Suicide of Ambassador MOSCOW Russia Russin Nov 18 illy The Tho Associated Persistent pain from a malady contracted during his service In China AS soviet am- am ambassador ambassador caused Adolph Abramowicz Yoe Joffe one ot of the great leaders ot of the Soviet So system m to commit suicide physicians never ne cOuld his malady accurately arll afE his pain to- to reCently Gently had become unbearable This caused him to we use narcotics which only partially relieved his agony SHOOTS SELF Joffe suffered Intensely from per per- perIodic lodic of see sev- several eral ecal trunk nerves aggravated by and an affection of the kidneys The persistent pain of this caused the mental menta depression during which he tired fired a 0 bullet through his temple en ending ng his life Note Note-Joffe No Joffe first came Into Inter Inter- International international national prominence as chairman or of orthe the Russian delegation at Brest Erest during the conclusion or of peace between Russia and the e central pow pow- powers ers In March 1918 be became soviet ambassador at Berlin There he took part In the preparations for tor the Ocr Ocr- German man revolution defying Kaiser Wil- Wil Wilhelm helm and flying a red flag over the embassy German papers demanded his expulsion and finally he be was given his passport In November 1918 He HeUlen then Ulen headed the dele delegation atlon nt at the Russian Polish peace conference at Riga CARRIED ON He went to China as ambassador In August 1922 and Shortly afterward was vas reported to be preaching Com Com- Communism among the Chinese Two months after his arrival he was taken seriously Ill and returned to Peking under the care ot of German doctors He was then reported to be suffering from heart disease ease and pneumonIa In 1923 he went to Tokio In con con- connection connection with Japanese Russo-Japanese economIc co operation lIe He arrived there on a stretcher In April au 1924 he went to Vienna for tor treatment leaving there for tor Mos Mos- Moscow cow eow a month later laur and reported at that time to be recovered He later returned to VIenna as sovIet dor His latest government assignment t was vice chairman ot of the concessions committee |