RED RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17747, 26 April 1923, Page 13

RED RUSSIA.

TERRORIST METHODS. RENEWAL DEPRECATED. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) R-IGA, April 23. Reports from Moscow state that I MM. Tehiteherin, Krnssin, and Krest- ; insky have made representations to the j Government against the renewed ter- ■ rorist methods as undermining foreign ! confidence. M. Krassin threatens to ; design if the policy is continued. ! Tin? Communist Congress at Moscow i passed a resolution in favour of ; strengthening the Red Army and sup- . portiiiir all parties abroad opposing . capitalistic Governments, the continuj ante of the Government's foreign trade j monopoly, and an increased export of | corn, i . ; TORTURE OF PATRIARCH. I (Received April 25ih, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 24. | The Riga correspondent of ''The I Times'' says it is reported from Mos- ! cow that- the Cheka is using electrical torture to induce the Patriarch Tikhon ! to confess to offences which lie never I committed, revoke the anathema, and declare he considers that the Bolshevik revolution was justified. TRAWLER CONFISCATED. (Received April 2-sth, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, April 24. Advices received state that tho Soviet authorities have confiscated the Hull trawler, James Johnson, for alleged illegal lishing and ordered the stopper to bo detained for a month and pay a fine of ten pounds. The detention is retrospective from the date of seizure. SOVIET RULE. AUSTRALIAN OPINION. SYDNEY, April 24. Mr Garden, secretary of the Labour Council, has returned from a visit to Russia. His views regarding the Soviet methods of government are materially modified. He declares that it is the only form of government suitable to Russia, but it is unsuitable to Australia, which is much further advanced than Russia. The Soviet system of school education, however, was the finest in the world. TREATf WITH DENMARK. (Received April 25th, 5.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, April 23. The Danish-Russian agreement' has been signed at Moscow. It establishes definite de facto relations, and allows mutual representation by resident delegations, also Danish trading in Russia with security against the obligation to surrender property without full compensation. The question of citizens' claims to compensation or restitution was discussed, but no agreement was reached.