RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1934, Page 3

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS. [by CABLE —PBEBB ASSN. —OOPYBIGHT.J LONDON, November 7. The “Manchester Guardian’s” Moscow correspondent says: Moscow last night was electrically .ablaze and heavily decorated in preparation for ' today's celebration of the seventeenthanniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Every building carries some form of red decoration, many being floodlit, including a new fifteen storey hotel which is almost finished, and the twelve storey Council of Commissars building. The facade of the latter building bears a , full-length photograph of M. Stalin, ten storeys high. Nearby there is a huge representation of locks on the MoscowVolga Canal with real water noticeable. CANADIAN SCHOOL HOLIDAY. (Received November 8, 1.30 p.m.) EDMONTON (Alberta), Nov. 7. The action of the School Board at Blairmore, a,, coal mining town, in declaring a- school holiday to mark the seventeenth anniversary of the Russian revolution, has created a furore through the province. There have been hundreds of protests to the Government, coupled with a demand that the Government school grants be cut off.