COMMUNIST SPLIT
TROTSKY AND OTHERS DEPRIVED OF POSTS SEQUEL TO EXPULSION FROM PARTY BY TBIiEGBAPH. —PBESS ASSOCIATION. Copyright. Moscow, January 3. As a New Year sequel to their expulsion from the Communist Party, Trotsky, Zinovieff, Katneneff, and Rakovsky are comrades in humiliation. AU have been deprived of their official posts, likewise the Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs, Smirnoff, who is now operating a factory lathe, and Beloborodoff, who signed the order for the Tsar’s execution. , OFFICIALS IMPRISONED ABUSE OF POSITIONS (Rec. January 4, 8.25 p.m.) London, January 4. Official reports issued in Moscow state that Poliakoff, Commercial Director of the Grain Department of the State Bank, and his assistant, Telesnin, have been sentenced to death for selling private merchants’ grain on more favourable terms than the State Department’s. Neither will benefit by the October amnesty, in view of the fact that their crimes proved that they were involved in an excessively prolonged abuse of their official position for a selfish purpose. A middleman" receiver also was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to ten years’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 82, 5 January 1928, Page 9
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178COMMUNIST SPLIT Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 82, 5 January 1928, Page 9
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