SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1928, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. A SOVIET BANISHMENT. LONDON, January 11. A Berlin corresponden says a message to the Berliner Tageblatt from its Moscow correspondent reports sta--1 j ii is using pretence to cloak the banishments under the assignment of party work. Bukovsky has tieen ordered to Viatka three hundred miles from a railway and the others exiled include BcloborodofF head of Eketerainburg administration, when the Czar was murdered, Sehriakoff recently fostering Russo American trade, Smilga a p><>ininent industrial revivalist and Sasnovsky, newspaper critic of tho Soviet.

SOVIET ACTION. LONDON. Jan. 11. The “Daily Mail” Riga cor respondent says reports from Moscow confirm yesterday’s cabled intimation of tlie exile of Trotsky and other leaders. The Soviet press is silent concerning the banishments. It is semi-officially stated here that Stalin effectively disposed of Iris enemies bv allotting them minor posts in remote villages. Others were sent to Caucasus. Turkestan, and Siberia. The decree was executed suddenly. Agents of the Cheka visited the homes at midnight, ordered the men to pack their belongings, conveyed them to the station and entrained them in closely guarded compartments. Stalin’s action was unexpected, as Trotsky. ZinovietT and Rmlek recently asked permission to go abroad.