SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1927, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[ Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] SOVIET DIVISIONS. LONDON, Oct. 17. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent states: Meetings following M. Bukahin’s speech on October 13th. have been very stormy. The Opposition’s decision openly to battle with the Stalinites lias been demonstrated hv violent speeches against the ruling cliques and the trades union policy, the opposition accusing M. Stalin and M. Bukharin of using the trade unions to benefit the State trusts and syndicates, thus sacrificing a possible increase in wages to make the State enterprise yield profits. The Conference has issued a declaration stigmatising with shame those trade unionists who are trying to disrupt the Red unions and the Communists.

The expulsion of heretics continues, and these include six additional prominent Communists.

SPY TRIALS. LONDON, Oct, 17. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent states: Apparently not satisfied with the trials and shootings following on the Anglo-Russian break, the Soviet now announces the discovery of a number of espionage organisations connected with British diplomatic circles, missing from Moscow. The first of these trials begins shortly. The victims include three sons of the Dio scow exmillionaire Koropakoff. The legal advisor to the Revolutionary Military Council, in an announcement, states that the prisoners collected information for the British commercial attache Charnoek.

SOVIET DECREE. LENINGRAD, Oct. 17. The Government have abolished the death penalty, except for crimes against the Soviet State.