GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 6 November 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TROTSKY ON STOHLM’S REGIME BERLIN, Novemb r 1. “Under the present r.gime Bolshevism is hurriedly drifting to its end,” declares Trotsky, in a book which he managed clandestinely to publish. The Soviet ordered the confiscation th' t book a,nd tho arrest of the publishers, but Trotsky's support'd,, managed to smuggle a copy into Germany where it. will shortly be published. Trotsky asserts that the rule of revolutionary workers has de,generm cd into a bureaucratic system, throttling all industrial and intellectual initiative. He describes the official departments as juggling with statistics in order to present a cheerful picture of the conditions which really arc th blackest . MORE FROM TROTSKY’S BOOK. (Recd. Nov. 5 at 5.5 p.m., LONDON, Nov. 4. The “Daily Express” Berlin correspondent states: It was the discovery of Trotsky’s book (as cabled on Nov. 2) that brought about his banishment. It was discovered just when it was about to be broadcasted throughout the country. The “Cheka” worked swiftly and silently, and in a couple of days everyone in any way concerned was arrested and exiled to the farthest corner of Russia'. The entire edition was destroyed Trotsky exposes the alleged breakdown of the industrial system ami says: “The Soviet bureaucracy is tyrranising over the workers in a worse manner than the former employers. The youth of the country is growing up in illiteracy, owing to a failure to organise schools. The sovereignty of the people is a mere fiction, all power being vested in the Stalin oligarchy, which immediately removes anyone voicing different opin ions. Official returns of the unemployed in April last year stated the total was a million and a half. The real number was two millions, and it was steadily increasing by a stream of out-of-works pouring into the towns. THE ANTI-GOD MOVEMENT. RIGA November 4. At the request of the Anti-God So ciety, the Central- Council of (ho So viet has decided that any Trades Unionists participating in r ligious services’ will be expelled from. the Unions. NICARAGUAN PRESIDENCY. (United Service.) (Received Nov. 5 at 11.10 p.m.) MANAGUA, November 4. The election returns on Sunday night indicated that G. neral aose Maria Moncada, Liberal, had been elected President of Nicaragua by a majority of about ten thousand over Adolfo Bcr.ard, Conservative.