RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Grey River Argus, 13 January 1928, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

STALIN’S OPPONENT’S ALLOTED MINOR POSTS. LONDON, aJnuary 11. The ‘ ‘Daily Mail’s” Riga correspondent says, that reports from Moscow confirm yesterday’s cabled intimation of the exile of Trotsky, and other leaders . The Soviet Press is silent concerning the banishments. It .is semi-offi.cially stated here that M. Stalin has effectively disposed of his enemies by allotting them minor posts in remote villages. Others were sent to the Caucasus, Turkestan and Siberia. ' The Ticcree was executed, suddenly. The agents of the Cheka visited the homes at midnight, ordered the men. to pack their belongings, and conveyed them to the station, and entrained ■ them in closely guarded compartments. Stalin’s action was unexpected, as Trotsky, Zinovieff and Radek recently asked permission to go abroad. -»VW “The Times’s” Berlin eorrespondet says: A message to the “Berliner Tageblatt,” from its Moscow correspondent, reports that M. Stalin is using the pretence to cloak the banishments, under the assignment of party work. Rakovsky has been ordered to Viatka, 300 miles from a railway. The others exiled include BcToborodoff. head of the Eketeralnburg Adminstration when the Czar was murdered: Sebriakoff, who was recently fostering Russo-American trade, Smilga, a prominent industrial revivalist; and Sasnovsky, a newspaper’critic of the Soviet.