SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1926, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

ZINOVIEFF *» FALL

LONDON, July 29

In the course of a review of the piesent obscure situation in Russia, the “Daily Telegraph’’ says: “The news leaking out suggests that all is not well with the Soviet. Its policy of leaders’ censorship is being vigorously enforced, but it is certain that Dzerjinsky is dead, it is not surprising, in the circumstances, that it has been suggested be was murdered. Zinovieff has been dismissed from the Political Bureau, and he. will, in due course, cease to tie President of the Third International. Similarly Lascheviteli, who is charged with being concerned with Zinovieff in organising a “Cave within the Communist Party is no longer President of the Atilitary Council, and is debarred from any office for ten years. These dismissals reveal the alarm with which the high minorityites are regarded by the Central Committee. No Government can long enforce a decree of silence in Russia, where something in the nature of a mutiny has evidently occurred, without exception.”

The “Morning Post’s” diplomatic correspondent states that Zinovieff’s fall means the disestablishment of the Third International. The correspondent understands that an inoffensive foreigner will become the President of tbo Third International. There is. he says, some talk of removing the organisation to a European capital, preferably to London or Paris.

The “Daily Telegraph's’! Riga correspondent states: “Information from competent sources in Moscow shows that Dzerjinsky, on the day of his death, delivered a speech. He declared that khe opposition, which had sprung up was very difficult to combat, not only because among its partisans there were numerous members of the Control Committees, and of the Government, but this opposition was supported by a foreign power with which the Soviet was anxious for closer relation. Dzerjinsky asked for special powers, in order to paralyse this foreign influence. The Council, though disconcerted refused. It is not certain whether Dzerjinsky committed suicide in consequence of the refusal, or was murdered in consequence of the revelations v&ade.