WORDY WARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 285, 1 December 1936, Page 7

WORDY WARS.

Germany and Russia Continue Battle of Abuses. SOVIET CONGRESS SPEECHES. LONDON, November 30. The Russians and the Germans continue their battle of abuse. M. Molotoff, president of the Union Council of Peoples' (Commissars, speaking at the Soviet Congress, declared: "The Russians have no dispute with the German people, whom they respect and love. Our only quarrel is with the barbarous Fascist chiefs."

M. Zdandoff, the Communist party chief in north-west Russia, threatened that the Soviet would reannex Finland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania if those States allowed "big adventurers to use their territory for big adventures."

Meanwhile Herr Hitler's right-hand man, Herr Rudolf Hess, speaking in Germany, said that Russia hated the new Germany, which had replaced a country which once seemed ripe for plunder aiul now was the centre of antiBolshevism.

ROYAL DUKE'S POST. CHIEF SCOTTISH MASON. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 30. The Duke of York was installed Grand Master Mason of Scotland at the bicentenary celebration of the Grand Lodge of Scotland at Edinburgh.

NOT AN ACCIDENT. SHOOTING IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, November 30. The chief of the Victorian Criminal Investigation Branch, Superintendent J. Brophy, stated to-day that the shooting in the leg of James Dugan, aged IS, who was one of the Crown witnesses in proceedings last week in a case in which three men were charged with the murder on January 31 of James Edward Scriven, a Titles Ollice messenger, was not an accident. . The police now had full details and would clear the matter up in a few days.