EVILS OF SOVIETISM

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 November 1928, Page 7

EVILS OF SOVIETISM

UKRAINE’S APPEAL TO WORLD. . (Times Cables.) <By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 11. “The Times’s” Geneva correspondent reports: “After eight years of “Red” domination, the Ukraine, formerly a granary of Europe, is so impoverished that it cannot feed itself. He says that a committee of Ukraine refugee organisations are petitioning the League of Nations. The petition states: “In order to carry out a policy of extermination, Moscow tyrants sent thousands of Ukrainians to certain death in Siberia, and confiscated the country’s immense riches to pay an imperialistic army, also agitators fomenting troubles throughout the world. The famine that devastated Ukraine in 1922 was nothing compared with the disaster now threatening We appeal to the world to help three millions at present faced with starvation.” more oppression. (Received November 13, 1 p.m.) LONDON, November 13. A British United Press message from Moscow states that as the lesult of a Soviet drive to find new lands to distribute among the peasantry, sixty semi-feudal estates ruled, by wild nomads, Kirchiz Kazaks, in Central Asia, have been seized. The Kazaks, puzzled by the Soviet’s challenge to their invincibility, are stoutly resisting the attempts at nationalisation.