BLOODY CONFLICT

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 181, 28 April 1924, Page 8

BLOODY CONFLICT

PREDICTED BY TROTSKY

EFFICIENCY OF RED ARMY TO BE RAISED

London, April 25

The Riga correspondent of “Tho Times’' says that M. Trotsky still talks war. He is travelling about the country, fulminating against foreign Governments in general, and the British in particular, and urging that it is Russia’s duty to raise the efficiency of the Red Army in view of the inevitable bitter struggle, which must last for years, and perhaps for decades. He devoted a considerable amount of attention to the Americans, whom he accused of experimenting with gas on criminals, in preparation for the coming war. Ho declares that military chemistry and aviation will decide the world’s fate. “Sooner or later, the present intolerable (conditions will be followed oy a bloody conflict, for which the Soviet’s forces must be ready.—“ The Times.’’

TSARIST OFFICER SENTENCED TO DEATH

(Rec. April 27, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 26

The Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Express” states that Alexey Stetsenko, formerly captain in the Tsarist army, lias been sentenced to death at Kharkov for counter-revolu-tionary activities. The trial revealed that Stetsenko held high positions in the British and French intelligence sen-ices, and was leader of a secret monarchist organisation in Russia, directed to the suppression of tho Bolshevik rising in the Crimea in 1919. He confessed that he had shot seven hundred Communists. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

RECRUDESCENCE OF TERRORISM

(Rec. April 26, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 25. The “Morning Post” correspondent at Helsingfors reports a recrudescence of Soviet terrorism. Six hundred intellectuals, including many Bqurgeosie, have been expelled from their homes and exiled to Siberia, to make room for proletarians.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.