IN RUSSIA

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1930, Page 5

IN RUSSIA

SOVIET ATT] TUBE

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) I LYNDON, November 23.

A Moscow correspondent reports: The Government contemptuously declines to deny the alarming stories of mutiny and assassination. M. Stalin, in the Soviet journal “Invest i-a” describes the statements as idiotic inventions, designed to create the impression that the collapse of the Soviet regime is inevitable. RUSSIAN ST AT EM ENT.' (Received this dav at 1.5 p.m.) MOSCOW, November 23. M. Stalin interviewed, declared hourgo ise journalists were serving their employers badly by lying. They were raising false hopes of our collapse. It will be recalled that in the earlier days, according to the foreign press Lenin and Trotsky were continually arresting one another. We were all killed and resurrected regularly. He would have thought the press would learn something after all these* years. Stalin incidentally declared that for years Russia would absorb all she can manufacture, as well as many imports, but within two years we shall be the world’s largest grain producing country. All talk of exporting below cost and forced labourists sheer nonsense.