SEEDS OF CIVIL WAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 200, 12 November 1927, Page 1

SEEDS OF CIVIL WAR

SOVIET’S AIM ABROAD SCATTERING TROUBLE By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Thursday. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says the 12th Congress of the Friends of Soviet Russia was opened at Moscow. It is alleged that at the suggestion of the British delegates it was officially announced that the congress had been summoned to consider the conversion of anti-Soviet countries by the promotion in them of civil wars for which the delegates -would work upon their return home. The chairman of the British delegation, Mr. Louther, representing the Durham Miners’ Federation, declared the delegation had gone to Moscow to learn how to turn the sword against the bourgeoisie.-—Times.

AGAINST STALIN

OPPOSITIONISTS INCREASE MANY WITHIN ARMY MOSCOW, Friday. The Moscow newspapers publish a copy of a resolution passed by the Central Committee of all the unions of the Communist Party insisting upon the necessity for expelling Trotsky, Zinovieff, Kameneff and other oppositionists from the party. The resolution says it will be best to show the people that Trotsky is attempting to rally the non-proletarian A document prepared by Trotsky and forbidden publication in Russia has now been published in Berlin. This confirms the fact that the situation of the workers in Russia is becoming worse. They endure long hours at low pay and the unemployed total 2,000,000. It is indicated that one of the reasons why Stalin refrains from taking more rigorous measures of repression is that the oppositionists possess documents which compromise his official policy. Another reason is that the oppositionists are growing in strength within the army.—A. and N.Z.