RUSSIAN OFFICIALS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 6

RUSSIAN OFFICIALS

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LONDON, Oct. 29,

The Riga correspondent of “The Times’’ reports that the entire Communist Party has been thrown into a ferment by a fresh purge, ydi'ich, bfbadly, consists of removing v.-from their posts all of the'Communist Party officials who are showing a conciliatory disposition towards the' Right Wing Opposition. It was understood that the victims would not be expelled- from the party, but many of those dismissed have how been expelled, including some of those, who previously were expelled and readmitted after a recantation. The dismissals in some towns are wholesale. The purge has begun in Government establishments. Two hundred have been discharged at Archangel alone as untrustworthy, and as suspected of anti-revolutionary sympathies. - N M. Bubnoff, a member of the Military Council, addressed the Red Commanders, and urged them to suppressthe agitators who Ayere spreading disloyalty ' among the troops under M. Trotsky’s influence.

FUEL AND FOOD SHORTAGE, LONDON, Oct. 29. • The . Riga corfespdndfent bf‘ v ..’“The Times’’ reports that the Soviet Trade Commissiariat has introduced the further rationing of. food and other necessaries, pointing out that if members of co-operative societies continued receiving, their present rations, non-mem-bers could get nothing, and therefore ordered co-operatives to supply nonmembers with a portion thereof, but less per head than co-operative members. The Commissariat has convened a special conference on how to keep up hi-ead supplies, and reduce queues, on the ground that a large proportion of workers are obliged to wait in queues after work, and often got nothing because the early comers got everything. The conference decided to distribute imported rice, groats, and beans, and to eke out the bread. Simultaneously the fuel famine is becoming acute. According to the Invest i a tile queues are enormous and rations will be . five cubic metres of firewood weekly.