SOVIET ANNIVERSARY

Evening Star, Issue 19710, 10 November 1927, Page 4

SOVIET ANNIVERSARY

DISORDER 111 LENINGRAD TROTSKY’S OBJECTIONS. PreM Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. MOSCOW, November 8. The revolution anniversary celebrations were accompanied by excited scenes. When Trotsky and Kamenefl' attempted to address crowds at various points in tho city troops wore called on to suppress the wild disorders which resulted. Zinovieff and other Oppositionists who attempted to speak in Leningrad were also howled down. Trotsky managed to get a hearing from the workmen at an aviation factory. He declared that the festivities were completely out of place, in view', of; the economic situation of the Soviet.

“WORLD ON BRINK OF RUIN.” ' BOLSHEVISM’S VICTORY. LONDON, November 9, (Received November 10, at 9.00 a.m.) The Riga correspondent of 1 The Times’ says that nobody must stay at home, everybody must be in the streets to swell the mighty living currents converging on Lenin’s mausoleum, was the Soviet’s order to tho Moscow populace to celebrate tho anniversary parade which included unprecedentedly large national cavalry formations from the eastern peoples, including Turkomans and Caucasians. Kalinin, Bukharin, Gallachcr, and Mr Saklatvala were among the orators at the Lenin mausoleum. They emphasised that Bolshevism had brought the world to the brink of ruin, and it would, shortly fall, enabling the establishment of Soviets throughout tho world. The celebrations included a two-day theatrical representation, broadcast all over Russia, of tho decade’s events, giving prominence to the British General Strike, tho Trades Union Congress traitors, and Sir Austen Chamberlain’s, Mr Baldwin’s, and Mr Churchill's part therein, declaring that Voikoff’s murder was directed from London, and culminating in the British delegate paying a tribute, in broken Russian to the Soviet’s progress.—‘The Times.’