COMMUNISM

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 1 October 1927, Page 5

COMMUNISM

DECLINING IN BRITAIN. SMALL MEMBERSHIP REGISTERED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 1, 10.50 a.m.) London, Sept. 30. The membership of the Communist partv in Great Britain has declined in the last year by nearly one-third, according to the report of the central committee prepared for the forth, coming conference of the party. The membership throughout the whole of Great Britain is 7377, compared with 11.000 last year. SOVIET PLANS A REVIVAL. London, Sept. 29. The “Times’ ” Riga correspondent says the Soviet has instructed various Communist organisation to utilise to the utmost the celebration of the tenth anniversary, September 27, to produce a Bolshevik revival, raising prestige among the masses in Russia and abroad. Great sums had been allotted to agitation and demonstration abroad, especially in European, Asiatic and American centres, during the next two months, showing Bolshevik achievements. Travelling exhibitions will visit Berlin. Paris, Vienna, Prague, Berne, Athens, Constantinople, Angora, Teheran, Tokio, Stockholm, Chicago and New York, where experienced agitators will expound Bolshevism in the guise of lectures Explaining the project ,the "Lzvertia” says 1400 foreign guests are expected and will be entertained for three weeks in Moscow and Leningrad and will tour the country They include 60 British. 60 Germans. 30 French, and 50 Americans, and Indians. Chinese Egyptians and antiimperialists throughout the world.— (“Times” cable.)