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Trotskyin Constantinople; Arrived January 26 Following Secret Departure

February 6, 1929
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Leon Trotsky is in (###). The correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns from (###) reliable sources in the Sovin capital that the former leader of the Red Army arrived in Constaintinople on January 26.

His departure, which took place before the date officially announced, was stranded in secrecy in order to prevent any demonstrations.

The followers of Trotsky in the absence of any information concerning (###) state are greatly agitated. In a (###) they issued, he is proclaimed as the greatest proletarian (###) leader, and the Polit (###), the body responsible for the (###) to exile Trotsky to Constantinople is charged with “handing his life (###) to the first White Guard assassin who is perhaps already engaged in (###) him in the wild mountains on fine T(###) border.”

Similar secret circulars have been issued daily and distributed in Moscow in the followers of Trotsky. Reference (###) made in these circulars to (###) services in the Revolution as (###) (###)of Lenin and as the leader of the Red Army.

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