MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1925, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

CUBTEALIAN AND K.Z. CAP',* ASSOCIATION. TROTSKY’S POSITION. MOSCOW, January 16. M. Bykov, President of the Council of Commissars, in a-speech at the first All Russian Congress of Schoolmasters stated that Trotsky was in bed through illness, it was curable, but of a lingering nature- Trotsky was going; south soon to undergo a cure. Referring to misunderstandings between the Communist Party and Trotsky, M. Bykov, said: “Trotsky undervalued the role of the peasantry in the policy of the Soviet. Tim Russian Communist Party insisted oil preserving all the Bolshevik traditions, while Trotsky wished to introduce certain changes opposed to Lenin’s traditions.’’ M. Bykov declared that the Soviet intended to import a qubrter of a million tons of corn, in order to provide tlie peasants of several districts with corn lor the next spring, and to regulate market prices, hut there was no immediate want of corn anywhere in Soviet Russia. LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING. LONDON, January 10. It is learned that the- theatre authorities have .banned a meeting in memory of Lenin, which was announced to be held at Me New Oxford Theatre under the auspices of the;Com nuiiiisL Party of Britain, It appears that iL was after ti e theatre had heen let to them that the Communists announced that the gathering was to be a Lenin memorial meeting. The speakers were to include Mr Saklatvala, the Communist M.P. lor Battersea. London, and Mr -T. H. Campbell, of the paper “Communist.” The owners of the theatre state that some of the largest shareholders have written protesting against the letting of the building for such a purpose. The lessees express the opinion that such a use of the theatre is outside the terms of the license. If the Communists decline to give up the theatre, a legal decision would he sought. INDIAN ARMY ACTIVITY. DELHI, January 16. Military manoeuvres which commenced here oil January loth came to an abrupt termination this afternoon, the umpires declaring the result to he stalemate, or a draw. The manoeuvres were undertaken to ter': the efficiency of arms in view of the drastic. reorganisation of the army after the w ar. ~ The main lessens intended to he drawn are, firstly, how a highly mobile force, mostly cavalry, assisted by armoured ears, can delay the progress of a less mobile force consisting mainly of infantry, but more heavily gunned ; and second to obtain experience of moving warfare, which is so necessary in an extensive country like 1 ntlia. EARTHQUAKES. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 16. As the result, of an earthquake at Ardahan, 1-10 versons wove killed and 33 injured. Five villages were completely and 44 villages partially, destroy*!.