EXILED FROM RUSSIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 78, 12 January 1928, Page 5

EXILED FROM RUSSIA.

STALIN MAKING PRETENCE. ALLEGED WORK FOR PARTY. (Per Press A*sor*tion—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 11. The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says that" a message to the "Berliner Tageblatt" from its Moscow correspondent reports that M. Stalin is using pretence to cloak the banishments under an assignment to party work. M. Rakovsky (formerly Ambassador to Paris) has been ordered to Viatka, 300 miles from the railway. Other exiles include Beloborodoff (who was head of the Ekaterinburg administration when the Czar %vas murdered), Serbriakoff, who recently has been fostering Russo-Arnerican trade, Smilga, a. prominent industry revivalist, and Sasnovsks, a newspaper critic of the Soviet.

SENT AWAY AT MIDNIGHT. (Received This Day, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, January 11. The "Daily Mail's" Riga correspondent says that reports from Moscow confirm*the. report of the exile.of Trotsky and other leaders. The Soviet Press is silent concerning banishment It is semi-officially stated here that M. Stalin effectively disposed of his enemies by allotting them minor posts in remote villages. Others were sent to the Caucasus, Turkestan, and Siberia. The decree was executed suddenly. The agents of the Cheka (Secret Political Police) visited the homes of the men at midnight and ordered them to pack their belongings. They conveyed them to the station, and entrained them in closely guarded compartments. M. Stalin's action was unexpected, as Trotsky and Zinovieff had recently asked for permission to go abroad.