UNEASY RULE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 11

UNEASY RULE.

SOVIET MENACED, ENEMIES ORGANISING. DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED. (nrrrzs press association—by elzctrio TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, November 6. Numerous reports of economic stress in Russia are encouraging the enemies of Soviet rule, and it is expected that there will be dramatic developments irf Russia. General Lucomsky, who was General Denikin's Minister for War, is now in Paris. He is organising the military academies, where officers of the White Army are training in the principal cities in Europe and America. General Koutiepov, who was aide-de-camp to the Grand Duke has been appointed leader of the White Army. Meanwhile reports from Riga state that fear of famine is creating an urgent demand for the nationalisation of the Ukraine, which, with a population of 40,000,000, considers that it is entitled to decide its own fate. The Central Soviet authorities, however, are unsympathetic as the Ukraine is Russia's granary. The Kulaks,, who are the wealthy peasant class, are leading tlie resistance to Moscow. Hitherto the Kulaks have relied on passive resistance, but are now introducing a policy of violence, including the burning of Bolshevik Communist stores, and also grain belonging to the Communist peasants. Moscow, officially denies the possibility of a famine,—Australian Press Association. ECONOMIC STRESS. FAMINE AFFECTS TRADE. MOSCOW, November 7. The adage that ah army marches on its stomach is suggested by the fact that fears of a hungry winter overhung the celebrations of the eleventh anniversary of the Soviet. Seven hundred thousand civilians filed paSt Lenin's tomb, after a military parade, to the accompaniment of booming gUns and droning aeroplanes. The slogan was: "Prepare Against Imperialist Attacks," but even the Soviet Press is now reflecting that Russia's peril comes from within, in the shape of the grain shortage* and admits that the scarcity of commodities is affecting the willingness of landholders to produce farm products for city trade. The figures for August showed an adverse balance of £18,000,000, largely due to the cessation of grain exports. The debit would have been worke but for the heavy exports of butter ahd eggs, which means that the producers had to go without. —Australian Press Association.