SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1927, Page 1

SOVIET RUSSIA.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

RUSSIAN RUMOURS. LONDON. Nov. 7. “The Times’s” Riga correspondent savs it is suggested that i rotsk.v and Zinovieff may not only he expelled from the party, hut banished Do.a Russia. The Communists decided lo pacify the opposition extremists by relieving loyal peasants of taxes and simultaneously restricting Landowneis privileges, depriving them of the right to vote, and increasing their taxation intolerably.

RED ARMY PARADE. MOSCOW, Nov. 7. A climax to the ten days’ festivity was an amazing demonstration of military power. Twenty-five thousand picked troops, commanded !>v tbe AA ar Minister. A'erehilow, pawled the Red Square, the movements being accompanied by the thunder of cannon and blare of military music. The Army is vastly different from Hie ragged, hungry troops whom Lenin originally drafted into the Red Army. Division after division of well-uniformed and perfectly equipped infantry, heavy artillery and superbly horsed cavalry paraded with perfect discipline. Crowds in grandstands commented rapturously: “This is our answer to England

The Army represented all sections of the 125 Federated States. There were terrific cheers as the Cossacks swung into view at the gallop, mounted on black horses and with black coats and fur capos flying in the wind; their drawn swords (lashing in the sun. The Cossacks did not differ outwardly from the troops who were the terror of the peasants in the Tsarist (lays. The military parade was followed by reserves of workers from Mosrow Trades Unions; thousands of men and women being armed with rifles. Then came a carnival procession in which no fewer than twenty effigies of Chamberlain wore carried. Chamberlain was f.lso represented with Mussolini as a doubleheaded dragon. The British Communist Gallagher, was the only foreigner chosen to address the Red Army. In a voice, which was hroadeated by loud speakers, ho declared the British Cabinet of blackguards was out to fight the workers’ government, “but Brill'll workers are with you, if the British Empire starts war against Rnsia. AA’e promise to convert it into a civil war and overthrow the world of Tniporialim." Terrific cheers and boom of cannon greeted these closing remarks.