RUSSIAN FARMERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 November 1928, Page 7

RUSSIAN FARMERS

ATTACK SOVIET OFFICIALS (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Recd. Nov. 12, 1 p.m.) MOSCOW, Nov. 11. “Izvestia” admits that attacks on Soviet officials are occurring throughout the country. It says that officials, teachers and journalists have been murdered and Soviet buildings and Communists’ residences burnt down. The Kulaks, or the rich peasants, have broken up town meetings held to discuss the collection of agricultural taxes. “Pravda” states: The outbreaks of violence are growing more desperate and murders of officials doubled compared with 1927. The Kulaks, seeking revenge for the confiscation of their property, burnt eighty-five haystacks co-operatively owned, and a grain elevator. The majority of the crimes are the direct result of the Government’s grain buying and rigid collection of taxes. COMMUNIST’S THEFT. BERLIN, November 10. Litvinoff, former head of the trade delegation here, brother of the Soviet Acting Foreign Minister fled on a warrant for his arrest being isued. He is alleged .to have swindled the delegation to the extent of nearly a quarter of a million sterling. PARIS, November 11. A search by the special agent, of the Soviets’ Berlin Legation resulted in the discovery, in two French banks, of seven bills of exchange, amounting to £200,000, allegedly forged by Lithvinoff’s brother, who is Moscow representative of the Russian Trade Delegation in Berlin until January 1926. He issued the bills without authority.