RUSSIA ASTIR

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 51, 24 November 1930, Page 11

RUSSIA ASTIR

Reports of Revolt IS STALIN Dead? People Long for Change ly Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Rec. November 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 22. Reports of sensational events In Russia continue to circulate throughout the Continent. It is even reported tliat Stalin, whose position as head of the Political Bureau makes him virtual dictator of Russia, has been assassinated. The Soviet’s Tass Agency denies this,

and also the arrest of certain generals, but information from Moscow is emphatic that there have been wholesale arrests of officers. Travellers from Russia report extensive move ments of troops and rigorous examine tlon of passports nnd train inspections, and that the

faith In the five-years-old plan for economic rehabilitation has faded and that people are longing for a change in the regime.

SOVIET CONTEMPTUOUS Declines to Deny Reports (Rec. November 23, 12.10 a.m.) London, November 22. A Moscow correspondent reports that the Government contemptuously de clines to deny the alarming stories of mutiny and assassination of Stalin. The Soviet journal “Izvestia" describes the statements as “Idiotic inventions designed to create the impression that the collapse of the Soviet regime is inevitable.”