TROUBLES BESET RUSSIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 9

TROUBLES BESET RUSSIA

STORMS AND FLOODS THOUSANDS HOMELESS Bp Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright LONDON, Friday. The Riga correspondent of "The Times” reports that advices from Moscow say that damage to the extent of £1.000,000 has been caused by storms and floods in the Vladivostok and Khabarovsk districts. Twenty thousand people are reported to have been rendered homeless. The flood waters have inundated hundreds of villages, also the towns of Nikolsk and Spassk. Three villages have been completely obliterated. Torrential rain is still falling.— “Times.” DEMORALISED TROOPS IRON DISCIPLINE FAILS WARSAW, Friday. Two Russian staff officers who have deserted have reached Warsaw. They state that, in spite of the iron discipline of the Soviet, the army is In v demoralised condition. Promotion is only given to Communists. and this is causing deep dissatisfaction among the other soldier many of whom are siding with the Opposition. Soldiers are flogged for the slightest infringement of the regulations.—* Sun. REFUSAL OF VISAS LONDON, Friday. The Riga correspondent of the “Daily Mail” reports that a number of English business men at Moscow and Leningrad cannot leave Russia be cause the Bolsheviks refuse to give visas to their wives. The Soviet officials claim that despite their marriage the women concerned are still Russian subjects, —Sun.