ANTI-COMMUNISM.
REACTION IN RUSSIA. TROTSKY'S DEATH RUMOURED. (as CABLE—PEES 3 ASSOCIATION COPXUIfIHT.) '("THE TIKES.") (Received January 31st, 11.45 p.m.), LONDON, January 31. The Riga correspondent of "The Times" reports that persistent rumours are current that Trotsky has been killed. however, suggest that these are groundless. Meanwhile the pre-occupation of the Communists in internal quarrels has resulted in outbreaks of anti-Commun-ist violence in many provincial centres. Railway workers at Omsk locked in their local Communist committee during a meeting, set fire to the building, and shot those attempting to escape through tho windows. Twentytwo CommUniats perished in the fire, including M. Lifskhitz, deputy-chair-man of the Omsk branch of the Communist Party. Communists subsequently arrested 300 railwaymen, of whom several were shot without trial. Many anti-Commnnist organisations are active in South Russia.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17986, 1 February 1924, Page 9
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