BLOW TO BOLSHEVISM

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 46, 18 November 1925, Page 9

BLOW TO BOLSHEVISM

SECESSION OF PROMINENT OFFICIAL DESPAIRS OF COMMUNISM SHAKES DUST OF SOVIET RUSSIA FROM FEET A prominent Bolshevik official has shaken the dust of Soviet Russia from his feet, declaring he is disgusted with Bolshevism and despairs of Communism. Bi Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. London, November 16. The Riga correspondent of “The Times” says that a serious blow has been struck at Bolshevism by the defection of Dzevaltovsky, a prominent member, who held responsible administrative and other posts. He recently crossed the border, and surrendered to the police at Vilna. He declared that after eight years of practical application he was disgusted with Bolshevism, despaired of Communism, and shook the dust of Soviet Russia from his feet. This secession has caused a sensation in the border States of Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.—“lhe Times.” TRIAL OF COMMUNISTS IN LONDON CHARGES AGAINST ACCUSED London, November 16. The trial of twelve Communists, lerecently arrested on a charge ot seditious conspiracy, has opened. There were two women on the jjury. All the defendants pleaded not guilty. The Attorney-Genet al, opening the case, said that the nature of the conspiracy which the prosecution undertook to prove was that defendants were the heads in Britain of an illegal organisation calling itself the Communist Party of Great Britain, the supreme control of which was in Moscow, with the object of forcibly overthrowing by arms the existing state of society, and, as a means thereto, seducing the armed forces of the Crown from their allegiance.—Reuter.

COMMUNISTS BANNED BY CANADIAN LABOUR PARTY (Rec. November 17, 7.15 p.m.) Quebec, November 16. The Provincial Convention of the Canadian Labour Party unanimously passed a resolution forbidding the admission of Communists into the ranks of the party, and providing Jor tlie expulsion of such members who are known to possess Communistic tendencies. Another resolution condemned Fascism.—Reuter.