TROUBLED RUSSIA
ANTI-COMMUNIST VIOLENCE
LOCAL COMMITTEE MURDERED :,;.-,. , AT OM.SK.
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„ ; LONDON, 31st January. Ilie limes ' Biga correspondent reports that persistent rumours are current that Trotsky has been killed. Investigations, however, suggest that these are groundless. Meanwhile the preoccupation of the Communists in internal quarrels resulted in outbreaks of antiU>mmuil!st violence in many provincial centres. Railway worker at , Omsk locked in the local committee during a meeting, set lire to the building, and shot those attempting to escape through the windows Twenty-two Communist* perished in the fire, including Lifschitz, h£ .^P^y-^irman of the Omsk branch of the Communist Party Communists subsequently arrested ' three hundred^ railwayiiien, and several were shot without trial. Many anti-Commuti: ist organisations are active »n South
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 7
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124TROUBLED RUSSIA Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 7
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