SOVIET RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 25 November 1930, Page 11

SOVIET RUSSIA.

GROWTH OF GRAIN PRODUCTION (UKITED rnESS ASSOCIATION—US ELECTIItC TELZOItAPH —COPTBIOHT.) AIOSCOW, November 23. Sensational reports concerning events in Russia, including one nnnouiicing that Stalin had been assassinated, were denied b.v M. Stalin in an interview. He declared that bourgeois journalists were nerving their employers badly by lying, and were only raising false hopes ot the Soviet collapse. He recalled that in tho earlier days, according to the foreign Press, Lenin and Trotsky were continually arresting one another. "We were all killed and resurrected regularly. One would have thought tho Press would have learnt something after all these years," he said.

M. Stalin incidentally declared that for years Russia would absorb all she could manufacture, as well as many imports, but within two years she would bo the world's largest grain producing country. All the talk of exporting below cost, with forced labour, was sheer nonsense. MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS REPORTED. MOSCOW. November 23. Travellers from Russia report extensive movements of troops, rigorous examination of passports, and train in spections. They say that fnith in the t ive Years' Plan has faded, and that the people are longing for n change of regime. It is reported that two batteries ot artillery have been ordered to Moscow to cleanse the Red Army of dissatisfied elements. The Soviet journal. "Izvestia," describes the statements as idiotic inventions designed to create the impression that the collapse of the Soviet regime is inevitable.