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Show Soviet Leader Shot for Misuse of Local Fund RIAZVN. Russia. Oct 27 (By the Associated Press:) - M Bakromoff, the president of the soviet here, who I raised a "local fund for the purchase I of entente imperialist statesmen" has been shot by the extraordinary com- mission for combatting counter re i llution, for misappropriating fumis m-I m-I tended for spreading Bolshevik ideas According to a newspaper report, : Bakromoff re ad a detailed report to the Riazan soviet declaring that he had bought Premier Clemenceau of France for 150,000 rubies. President .Wilson for 200.000 rubles anel the Ber ;lln foreign oifice for 60,090 rubles. The commission against counterrevolution counter-revolution discovered that the- fund 'was a swindle and t i": a t Bakromoff and two local officials In the mobiliza tion had pocketed the mone Bakromoff admitted that he had printed privnle paper money to the amount of 5.800,000 rubles oo |