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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 79, 13 January 1928, Page 5

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REPORTS CONFIRMED.

THIRTY MEN SENT AWAY. (Per Press Association—Copyright ) LONDON, January 12. The Berlin correspondent of the “Morning Post” says that a further message from the Moscow correspondent of the “Berliner Tageblatt,” dated January 6, received by mail, confirms the previously-telegraphed statement concerning the banishment of M. Trotsky and others. , The correspondent adds that at the moment of writing not a word had penetrated to the Russian public. This explains Moscow’s official silence. He adds that on January 3\ 30 Oppositionists were informed that they would, he dispatched within three days to various distant parts of Russia. Then, on January 4, the principal leaders, including MM. Trotsky, Rakovsky, Radek, Kameneff and Zinovieff, were advised' to leave Moscow and were told where it was advisable that they should go. M. Trotsky was allotted to Astrakhan, MM. Radek and Kameneff to Tobolsk and Siberia, M. Zinovieff to a place in the Ural Mountains, -and others to the shores of the White Sea.

The Soviet Government recently gave effect to the decision of the Communist Party to deprive Trotsky, Rakovsky, Zinovieff, Kameneff, and others of all their official and appointed their successors. The president of the Russian Bank for Trade and Industry (Ksandroff) was appointed; Trotsky’s successor ss chairman of the Concessions Committee. ■ As nnmc-ous places were renamed after revok denary leaders, orders have now been i 'sued to find new designations for places which received the names of “Renegade Leninists.” With a view, apparently to avoiding future difficulties such towns are adopting the names of the institutions and dead leader* rather than those of living Communists, “who may become renegades. The Zinovievsk has been renamed Dzerhinsk, after the late chief of the Cheka, and Trotsk has been renamed Krasnoarminsk. . Although he was not included m the list of recent expulsions, the. Soviet Government has officially dismissed “for Oppositionism” the Commissar of Internal Affairs for the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic (one of the constituent' Republics of the U.o.fe.xv.),* Bielo Borodoff, who gained notoriety in 1918 as head of the Administrative at Yekaterinburg when the Russian Imperial familv was murdered. Though M. Rykov holds the office which corrdesponds to that of Prime Minister, M. Stalin, who sets himself up as the successor of Lenin, is the real power in the Communist Party and consequently the country. A GILBERTIAN touch. DECLINE TO OBEY ORDERS. (A.P.A. and “Sun” Cables.) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) BERLIN, January 12. Trotsky, Rakovsky and Radek have given a Gilbertian touch to their banishment by declining to go. M. Stalin is in a quanaarv. tie is reported to have sounded the trio as to where thev would like to go. It. is confirmed that M. Zinovieff is not included in the list of the banished.