EXILED “REDS”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10483, 13 January 1928, Page 6

EXILED “REDS”

SOVIET’S COUP. ST ALT N EFFECTIVELY DIS- ' “BOSES' OE ENEMIES. PFCREE SUDDENLY EXECUTED AT MIDNIGHT.

(United Presi Assn.—-Copyright ) LONDON, Jan. lx. The Berlin correspondent of the. Time< says a- message- to the Berlin Tagehlatt from its Moscow correspondent reports that M. Stalin _ is asino pretence to cloak flic banishments. Under the assignment of party work, M. Rakovsky has been ordered to Vmtka,. 300 miles from the railway. Others exiled include M. Belohorodoff, head of the Ekaterinburg Administration when the Czar was murdered; M. Serin iakoff, who recently was fostering Russo-Amorican trade; M. Sinilga a prominent industrial revivalist ; and M. Sasivovsky a. newspaper critic ot the Soviet. —Times. The Dai 1 v Mail’s Riga correspondent sums reports 'from Moscow confirm yesterday's cabled intimation of the exile of ‘M. Trot-sky and other leaders.

The- Soviet- press is silent concerning the banishments. it is semi-olnem.dy stated liere that M. Stalin has effectively disposed of his enemies by allotting them minor posts in remote villages. Others have been sent to the Caucasus, Turkestan, and Siberia. The decree was executed suddenly. Agents -of the Cheka visited the homes at midnight, ordered the men to pack their 'belongings, conveyed them to the station, and entrained them in close-guarded compartments. M. Stalin’s action was unexpected, ns MM. Trotsky, ZinovieH; and Radek recently asked permission to go abroad.—-Sim.

VICTIMS RECEIVE LITTLE NOTICE. TROTSKY SENT TO ASTR.VKAN. (Received Jan. 12, 0.50 p.m.E LONDOX, Jan. 12. The Morning Rost Berlin correspondent says a lurthor message from the Berliner lagehlatt’s Moscow correspondent dated January ti, received l>v mad. confirms the provioi 1 1 y telegraphed concerning the banishment oi ’lrotsk,-. and others.

The correspondent adds that at the moment of writing not a word had renetra tetl to the Ru'ssian public. This explains Moscow’s official silence. 'I ho correspondent says that on January 3, thirty oppositionists wore informed they would be despatched within three days to various distant parts of Russia. Then on January -L rhe principal leaders, including Trotsky, Rakovsky. Radek, Kemoncff and Zmovieif. were advised to leave Moscow. and told where it was advisable they should go. Trotsky was allotted to Astrakan. Radek and Konienoff to Tobolsk, S.beria, Zinovieff to a place in the Ural Mountain's. and the others to the shores of the White Sen.—A. and X.Z.C.A.