SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1923, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RUSSIAN NAVY REMNANT. FOR THE SCRAP HEAP. 'V-' (Received tliis dav at 9.23 a.m.) LONDON Apr.’ 5. 'Die “Daily Chronicle's” Paris icrrospondent states the last rcr;.mints of the Russian Navy of twoi re vessels are good only for the- sernpJieap. They arrived at Yillofraiioh Ray under comluand of General Wrangel. Not one of the vessels would he granted entrance to any port possessing an authoritative health officer. The vessels carried composite crews of heroes and undesirables. One was commanded hy Captain l’rinntzon, who blew up the llurik rather llr.m surrender to the Japanese. To-morrow will take the vessels to Marseilles. German. Italian, and Spanish dealers uro waiting to light for carcases. TROTSKY 111.. 'Received this dav at 9.25 a.in.) , . ‘ PARIS. Apnl 5. 'J'h<. “Eclair’’ announces the iny.-uj-ious illness of I rotskv. lour memheiot the household have l.ceu arrested. COMMISSIONER BEHEADED. RIGA. April 5. The Soviet's hood Commi.-sienor, M. Volsky, while inspecting the lamb.fi district was ambushed By peasants who captured and beheaded lorn with an axe. BUDKEVITC IPS KN KCTTION. Ni:\VSRAJ’El’ COMM ENT. f Rkctkhs Tki.kuh v.ms. \ (ltoceived this day at 9.25 a.m.i AVARSAW. April 5. It transpires that Budkovitrh was excuted »t four o'clock c.n T riday ./ morning. The news was delayed ’ through the Soviet suspending telegraphic communicatii a lor four days. The sentence was carried out in a cellar of the Ch“!:a buildings. Ice pikM was placed with liis hack to the executioner who fired revolver shots into tlie priest’s hack and head. Tile Soviet newspapers sarcastically (•eminent on foreign interference and the “Isveslia” makes a furious ntlark on “Perfidieiis England —murderer ui a hundred thousand Irishmen.” The “Priivda’’ exhorts the Italian Communists to pronounce the death sentence on the J’ope by default, pend/itwg the establishment of a rosolutioiiTribunal. I’A'J'RIA ItCH Tf K I lON. . [“TIIH TlilUs” SKHVICK.j (Received this dav at 9.25 a.in.) RIGA, Apiil 5. ft is reliably stated from Moscow that America unofficially requested the Soviet to allow Patriarch Tikhon to goto America, where he formerly lived. Trotsky and Kamcni If. who are virtually the dictators were inclined to agree but the led Bishop Antonin, head of the Soviet's supreme church administration, dissuaded them and the trial has been postponed, pending the unfrocking of Tikhon.