CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 20018, 8 November 1928, Page 3

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

dramatic developments EXPECTED WHITE ARMY OFFICERS TRAINING TROUBLE IN THE UKRAINE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright., LONDON, November 6. (Received November 8, at 8.50 a.m.) Numerous reports of economic stress in Russia are encouraging the enemies of Soviet rule, and it is expected that there will be dramatic developments in Russia, General Lucomsky. who was Genera! Denikin’s Minister of War, is now in Paris organising military academies for officers of the White Army, who arc training in the principal cities in Europe and America, General Koutiepov. who was aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Nicholas, has been appointed leader of tho White Army. Meanwhile, reports from Riga state that tho fear of a famine is creating an urgent demand for the nationalisation of the Ukraine, which, with a population of 40,000,000, considers that it is entitled to decido its own fate. The central Soviet authorities, however, are unsympathetic, as the Ukraine is Russia’s granary. The Kuraks, who aro the wealthy peasant class, are leading the resistance to Moscow. Hitherto the Kuraks have relied on passive resistance, but they are now introducing a policy of violence, including the burning of Bolshevik and Communist stores and grain belonging to Communist peasants. Moscow officially denies the possibility of a famine.—Australian Press Association.