SOVIET DISSENSIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 January 1928, Page 7

SOVIET DISSENSIONS

EXILE ORDERS CONFIRMED. 'Australian and NjTcable Association.) LONDON, January 12. The “Morning Post's’’ Berlin corresnondent says that a further message from the “Berliner Tageblat t s Moscow correspondent, dated January o, received by mail, confirms the previously telegraphed statement concerning the banishment of Trotsky ami others. The correspondent adds: At the moment of writing, not a word has penetrated the Russian public. Hus explains Moscow’s official silence. 'The correspondent says that on January 3 thirty Oppositionists Avere informed that they would be despatched within three days to various distant parts of Russia. Then 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 Astrakhan, Radek and Kamenec to Tobolsk, Siberia and Zinovieff to a place in the Ural Mountains ; and others to the shores of the White Sea. TROTSKY’S REFUSAL. BERLIN, January 12, Trotsky, Rakovsky, and Radek, have given a Gilbertian touch to their banishment, by declining to go. M. Stalin is in a quandary. It is reported that he sounded the trio where they would like to go. . . It is confirmed that Zinovieff is not included in the list of the banished.