SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1926, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] RUSSIAN POSITION. LONDON, August 12. The “ Daily Mail’s'* Vienna, correspondent reports regarding the Russian position that M. Lithvinoff has replaced M. Teliitdieriii (Foreign Minister), who is dangerously ill. M. Lnchevieh, who has been leading Odessa insurgents, wearing a skull emblem on their sleeves, was captured at a railway junction at Smerinko. Tlie Black Sea Fleet has captured Kherson and Kardh. M. Stalin is now Dictator of Moscow, and lias mobilised forces against the villagers, who have been voting, out of resentment, against a decree fixing fifty-five per cent, of the crops as the property of the state. LONDON, August I.L Reliable advices which 'have reached London concerning the situation in Russia show (says the “ Daily Telegraph’s ” Diplomatic correspondent) that the disorders in Leningrad and Kronstadt were of a negligible character, but those in Odessa were more serious, involving rioting on a large scale by the arsenal workers, which were promptly quelled by the navai and military authorities. There is an increased exodus of the Bassarabian population to the Rouman- , ian border. This followed the Odessa trouble.

MENSHEVIKS. LONDON, August 13. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says that a feature of the political outlook in Russia appears to bo M. Stalin’s efforts to secure the co-operation, of the former Menshevik leaders with the Soviet Government. Naturally the more fanatical Communists are indignant at this move.