SEETHING RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10742, 13 November 1928, Page 5

SEETHING RUSSIA.

ATTACKS ON RED OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY.

VIOLENT OUTREAKS GROWING MORE DESPERATE.

United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyrijfb) (Australian Press Assooi^xion.) MOSCOW, Nov.- 11. The Izvcstia 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 rich peasants, have broken up town meetings held to discuss the collection of agricultural taxe£.. \ The Pravda states: <'Outbreaks'iqf violence are growing more desperate and the murders of officials' have doubled compared with 1927. Kuldks seeking revenge for the confiscation of their property .burned 85 . haystacks and a co-operatively owned grain elevator. The majority of the crimes are the direct result of the Government’s grain-buying and rigid collection of taxes.” ' • - -

FAMINE THREATENS DISASTER " , IN UKRAINE' V. > REFUGEES PETmON LEAGUE United Press Assn. by.,EI. Tol. Oopy?igM . (Times Cables.) \ (Received Nov. 12.’ 7.20.-p.nb) . . LONDON., Noy:'gUh The Times? Geneva correspondent reports: “After eight years* Red domination, Ukraine,, formerly . granary of Europea is BO.iimpoverished that it cannot . feed, itself,; Be says. ■ that, the committee .•. of 5 the Ukraine refugee orgahisatidns - are petitioning ' the League. I,* . g v aUr -The, petition states: “In carry out its policy of , extermination, Moscow tyrants " sent^ T thousands of Ukranians } to . in. Siberia, and confiscated; the country’s iminense;. richea.tp; perialistic army and <■ a 150...: - Agitators fomenting, troubles , throughout, the , world. The .famine; tha£- devastate! Ukraine in 1922 was .nothing, pared; with the dl faster now: throat- * eiiing." Wei appeal •to iho,;ii'Qrld j-'to •help three millions at present faded with starvation, • ■ . . .... .. .V .