SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1927, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Associatioi:

RUSSIAN KILLINGS. BERLIN, July 28.

It is reported from Moscow that the deaths of twenty Soviet officials have been announced in the Soviet newspapers, which are being issued with black borders. It is known that those who are dead attended a Bolshevik banquet, after which they were all taken violently ill, with symptoms of poisoning.

It is not known whether contaminated food was accidentally served or whether the men were deliberately poisoned. It is noteworthy that anti-Bolshevist plottings in Leningrad have recently increased.

BREAK W[TII RUSSIANS. LONDON, July 28. “It can safely he assumed that a break .between ,tlio British Trade Unions and the Russian Communists is coming soon.” said a member ot the House of Commons, who is also a. lneiifbcr of the General Council of tho Trade Union Congress. He made the declaration following on a pH vale meeting of the Council at which reports on the recent letters and statements of M. Tomsky were received. “Can anybody imagine, ’ asked another member, “that we will allow Tomsky to call our leaders lickspittles, and to attempt his Communist dictatorship?” The meeting ol the 1.1 .C. decided t to refer the question to the September Trades Union Congress, which is being held in Edinburgh.

Tho ‘1 Daily .'Telegraph’s” Labour erjnlespoiident Isays: “Conversations with the Council members left no doubt as to their attitude. Some were reluctant, to countenance a complete break with Russia, but, generally, they feel that such a course would be hotter than the present pretence.”