SOVIET RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA

BANISHMENT OF OPPOSITIONISTS MOSCOW’S OFFICIAL SILENCE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 12. The ‘ Morning Post’s ’ Berlin correspondent says that a further message from the ‘ Berliner Tageblatt’s ’ Moscow correspondent, dated January 6, and received by mail, confirms the previously telegraphed statement concerning the banishment of Trotsky and others. The correspondent adds that at the moment of writing not a word had penetrated to the Russian public. This explains Moscow’s official silence. The correspondent says that on January 3, thirty Oppositionists were informed that they would be despatched within three days to various distant parts of Russia, and on January 4 the principal leaders, including Trotsky, Rakovsky, Radek, Kameneff .and Zinovieff, were advised to leave Moscow and told where it was advisable they should go. Trotsky was allotted to Astrakau, Radek and Kameneff to Tobolsk, in Siberia, Zinovieff to a place in the Ural Mountains, and the others to the shores of the White Sea.