ZINOVIEFF THRASHED.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 5

ZINOVIEFF THRASHED.

A SENSATIONAL STORY. WORKLESS RUSSIANS' ATTACK. AN UNPLEASANT EPISODE. IBy Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, December '25. The ''Daily Express' " Riga Correspondent k'll> a sensational story of a 1 number of unemployed workers thrashing ZinovielT. The correspondent says ZinoxietT's wife, owing to jealousy, told the Leningrad unemployed that they would lind her husband and two Soviet leaders having a good time at a notorious house. A mob raided the house, smashed the windows and furniture and thrashed ZinoviefT, who was carried home unconscious. The ringleaders wore arrested, but were soon released as the result of orders from Moscow. The incident is considered a sidelight on the struggle between the Trotsky moderates and ZinovielT "die hards, , ' who recently made a concession permitting private trading to be resumed. —Keuter. BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA. TURKEY AS A BASE. LONDON, December 25. The "Morning Post"' correspondent in Russia Buys that in consequence of the Soviet officials using Turkey as a base of propaganda in adjacent' States, the Angora Government has threatened to expel t'nern if they do not cease diplomatic abuses.— (A." and N.Z. Cable.) TOPSY TURVEY IN PARIS. ARISTOCRATS AND BOLSHEVIKI MADAME KRASSIN'S GOWNS. • PARIS. December 25. Bolshevism's reversal of the social order is being amusingly emphasised. A party of the Soviet Embassy staff gathered at the Russian Club at Montmartre arid bought champagne for the ex-officers in the Czar's army, who are no\V professional cabaret dancers. Another incident was that Madame Krassin went to buy n.#w Embassy dresses at fashionable modistes, whose saleswomen were mostly ex-Russian aristocrats, who refused to serve Madame Krassin, who was forced to shop elsewhere.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)