SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1924, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[Reuters Telegrams.] STRIKE IN LENINGRAD. RIGA, Aug. 28. A stevedores strike is in progress at Leningrad, which Soviet troops are guarding. Strike breakers fired on -' body of strikers, killing six and wounding twenty. The strike remains unbroken despite the huge reserves of men drawn from the Leningrad unemployed army of 170,000. ANTI-REVO I,(T iON ARY SENTENCED. MOSCOW, Aug. 29. Saviiik-ofY was sentenced to death, but was recoin mended to mercy consequent on the remarkable statement that he considered all his counter-re-volutionary activities mistaken. lie retogmsed the justice of the revolution and acknowledged that he was guilt' of the charges, lie concluded: ”1 re cognise the power of the Soviet, and sav ‘‘He who loves the Russian nation must recognise the Soviet power. i ask no pity.” WARLIKE I'll l-K’A RATIONS. LONDON. Aug. 28. On the Russian Army’s general mobilisation, which is daily expected. Kamcnelf will nn.hably lm Commander in Chief. The reason given is that there are tense relations between I olnnd and Rouninnin. trial for plotting. MOSCOW. August 28. A well-known anti-Rolslievik. Boris Savinied', was arrested on Russian territory oil August 20. He is now being tried by the Supreme Military Ciuiit. He is alleged to lie the leading spirit of most of the counter-revolutionary plots in recent years operating outs ' -Russia.