SCVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1923, Page 3

SCVIET RUSSIA.

[by TKI.ECItAriI —I’EII PRESS ASSOCIATION.] TIKHON’S TRIAL. LONDON, April 21. ’Hie ••Times's’’ Riga correspondent says it is reported from .Moscow that the Cheka (the Soviet extraordinary commission for suppression of counterrevolution) are using electrical torture to induce the Patriarch Tikhon to confess to offences which l:c never committed, and revoke In'- anathema, and also to declare that la- considers that the Bolshevik revolution was justified. (Recent- advices show the •‘Cheka’ had been abolished some mouths ago). DENMARK RECOGNISES SOVIET. COPENHAGEN, April 2.1 A Danisfi-Rnssion agreement, just signed at Moscow, establishes diJiuite de facto relations between iho two Governments. ll allows for mutual representation by resident delegations, and also for Dani-h trading in Russia, with security against any obligation to .‘surrender property without lull compensation. The ([iiestion ol citizens’ claims to compensation or restitution was discussed, bill no agreement was reached. BRITISH SHIP CONFISCATED. LONDON, April 21 Advices received state the Soviet authorities have confiscated the British trawler Janies Johnson, seized recently for fishing within Russian territorial waters; and have ordered the skipper to lie detained for one month, and to pay a line of ten pounds. The detention, however, is retrospective fiom the date of tho seizure.