SOVIET RUSSIA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 February 1925, Page 5

SOVIET RUSSIA

RUNNING A RATLAYAY

CONCUSSION' TO' NEW COMPANY

NEW COPYRIGHT DECREE

JBY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPY HIGH'* Received Feb. 9, 10.10 a.m. LONDON. Feb. 8

The Times Riga correspondent says: Lt is" reported mat an international sitepiuk tar company lias successfully negotiated v<itii me Soviet Government tor a non-change railway communication between Riga- aucl V ladivostolt, via Moscow, it is intended to run’ the first , train in March. The agreement stipulates that the Company's own personnel shall conduct tire whole route. A new Soviet decree allows literary, musical > and dramatic authors to ietnht the copyright of their works for a maximum cf tv eiitv-five years attei the first a open ranee, but the Government reserves the right to acquire work on payment of an ofticiatLy 1 1 xe d com pen sa t ion. —Time s.

COURTING THE PEASANTS

SOVIET’S NEW POLICY

MOSCOW, Feb. 7. On the occasion of his taking up his duties as Commissar for War in succession of Trotsky, Runse issued an ®rder of the day to the army and navy, in which Tie dwelt on the necessity for strengthening the union between the workers and the peasants. He says this end is now being sought by the transition to the militia system. In army continues to decrease in numbers and'increase in effeeiency ' The Soviet- is always striving, to establish peace, but the security of the union was recently threatened by efforts to create groups of powers hostile to the Soviet, The Red Army should increase its efficiency,in order to he ready to repel the dangers threatening the peaceful labours of the citizens of the" Soviet Union.