SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1927, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

(Australirn A N.Z. Cable Association.) SPIES IX RUSSIA. ArOSCOAV, Sept. 1. The secret police have issued - a statement that they have arrested two groups of Lithunian and Finnish spies, who, it is alleged, have attempted to institute a reign of terror in Soviet Russia.

They will be charged with attempting to take the lives of a number of Government officials at a banquet by poisoning the food, and also with trying to dynamite the largest hydroelectric power station in the country.

Two of those arrested, who were accused of throwing bombs into a Soviet Club at Leningrad in June, pleaded guilty. The cables reported the incident at tlie time (July 27) comparing it to the action of Guy Fawkes. SOVIET TRADE. AfOSCOAV. Sept. 1. Following oil a. commercial expedition to Arabia, under the leadership of Af. Bialkin, the Soviet is establishing a icgular steamer service between Odessa and Arabia. AI. Bialkin, whose errand was also political, reported that Russia’s Hour, snap, petroleum, potatoes. barley and crockery would find market in Hedjaz. in Yemen, in Xejd, and in oilier centres, in exchange for coffee and gum-arabic. The paper Inveslia emphasises that it b essential to thwart British Imperialism in Arabia. LONDON, Sept. 1. The Riga correspondent of the Times says: The Soviet Court at Odessa, will shortly give judgment as to whether the steamer Inkerman, which its mutinous crew recently brought to Odessa, after throwing overboard the mate and an engineer, belongs to the Soviet. The Inkerman was once a Russia vessel, hut “AATilite” Russians sold her to a Greek for whom she plied to tlie Black Sea ports. The Soviet newspaper Tnvestia declares that tho mutiny was due to the cruelty of the mate and the Engineer, who fell overboard during a struggle. It expresses the opinion that the Itikennan will he declared a Soviet-own-ed vessel.

RUSSIAN EXECUTION. LONDON, Sept, 1. “The Times’s” Riga- correspondentsays that after a case lasting six days Sorgia. son of Colonel Solovieff, was shot on charges ol conspiring to securo a state of terrorism, Including attempts at assassination of officials in Leningrad, a power station explosion, poisoning in restaurants with the assistance of Latvian authorities, several of whose agents were arrested. SOVIET ARRESTS. RIGA, Sept. 2. Additional arrests were made last night. The Soviet chief of police alleges lie has discovered a great antiBolslievik movement by armed terrorists from Latvia and Finland. One party fired on the troops killing one. There is the usual story that the raiders were directly connected with an English and Finnish organisation.