SOVIET RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 19328, 14 August 1926, Page 4

SOVIET RUSSIA

INTERNAL DISORDER M. STALIN'S FORGES MOBILISING •RISING OF VILLAGERS REPORTED. Press Association—By* Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 12. The ‘ Daily Mail’s ’ Vienna correspondent reports regarding the Russian position that M. Litvinolf has replaced AI. Tchitcherin (foreign Minister), who is dangerously ill. M. Lachevich, who was leading the Odessa insurgents and was

wearing a skull emblem on his sleeves, was captured ab the railway junction of Smerinko.

. The Black Sea fleet has captured Kherson and Kerch.

M. Stalin is Dictator of Moscow, and has mobilised his forces against the villagers, who are rioting Out of resentment against the decree fixing 55 per cent, of the crops as the property of the State.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.

AUTHENTIC REPORTS

RIOTING IN ODESSA,

LONDON, August 13. Reliable advices which have reached London concerning the situation in Russia show, says the 4 Daily Telegraph’s ’ diplomatic correspondent, that the disorders in Leningrad and Kronstadt were of a negligible character, but those in Odessa were more serious, involving rioting on a large scale by tho arsenal workers, which was promptly quelled by the naval and military authorities. An increased exodus of tho Bessarabian population to the Rumanian border followed. A feature of the political outlook appears to be A!. Stalin’s efforts to secure the co-operation of the former Menshevik leaders with the Soviet Government, and naturally the more fanatical 1 Communists arc indignant at this move. —A. and N.Z. Cable.