SOVIET REGIME.

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1926, Page 5

SOVIET REGIME.

REPORTS OF TRIALS. Not Confirmed. (Reed. Oct. 13 at 10 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 13, Regarding Trotsky and the others cabled yesterday, the report emanated from Berlin. It has not been confirmed that an actual trial has been opened though there is ground for the belief that sonic sort of interrogation has occurred. The Daily Telegraph’s Riga correspondent suggests that the Central Control Commission, constituting itself a party jury, is to meet in a few days and to arraign the leaders of the opposition STILL OPPOSED. BY U.S.A. FEDERATION OF LABOUR. (Reed. Oct. 13 at 7.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 13. At the eon volition of the "American Federation of Labour at Detroit, the Resolutions Committee reported that a resolution was passed as follows:— (1) Advocating the diplomatic recognition of Russia by the United States Government. (2) Expressing “full agreement with President Coolidge in holding that American principles must be unbarter(3) Disapproving of the proposed Labour Commission of Investigation to Russia. (4) Extending “profound sympathy with the masses of the people of Russia in their moral, political, and spiritual enslavement.” Tho Resolutions Committee also stated: “We regard tho Soviet regime as the most unscrupulous, tho most anti social, and the most menacing institution of the whole world to-day.” NO BRITISH CREDITS. LONDON, Oct. 13. Tho Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent says: M. Krassin’s (Russian Envoy’s) interview with Sir Austen Chamberlain, with reference to credits for Russia, proved fruitless, the Foreign Secretary intimating, as previously, that the Soviet propaganda, aggravated by the Soviet support of the British minors* strike, was not calculated to facilitate the aims of M. Kras sin’s mission.