SOVIET EXILES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 January 1928, Page 11

SOVIET EXILES.

TALLY REACHES FIFTY

PRESS STILL SILENT

tY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION— COP ¥ RIGHT. LONDON, Jan. 17.

The “Berliner Tagebiatt’s” Moscow correspondent has again succeeded in sending a message containing interesting details of the banishments. Up to January 14 fifty members of the opposition had been expelled from Moscow, while an unknown number has been sent to the provinces. ft appears that the front rankers forced Stalin to show his hand. When they first received intimation that they had. been assigned to- party work in a distant place they made a united protest and refused 'to depart voluntarily. They demanded information as to their destinations and equality of treatment. Trotsky even insisted that the secret police should' attend at bis residence and give orders instead of ins going to the O'.G.P.U. office.

The Stalinites replied, by sending peremptory orders through the O.G.P.U. with the result that the front; rankers became exiles under a clause of the criminal code prescribing punishments for counter revolution.

Trotsky is due to leave Moscow on the 16th for Virny, on the GliineseTurkestan frontier. Others are bound for destinations where they will be informed what their future movements are to be.

Zinovieff and Kameneff appear to have purchaser! indulgence by surrender, and both remain in European Russia.

Each of those banished receives about £5 for travellinp expenses and is accompanied by a soldier. The Soviet Press has not yet mentioned the matter.