SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1923, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[by TEt.KdItAVII —TKII PRESS ASSOCIATION.] SOVIET AND PORE. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) RIGA. April 9. It is authoritatively stated the Bolsheviks seriously intend, after they have, dealt with. Tikhon to stage the trial of the Pope in Absentia at -Moscow, on the grounds of counter revolutionary and anti-proletarian conspiracy. THE RED CHURCH. (Received this day at 11-10 a.m.) RIOA. A.piil 9. At a Convocation of the lied ( hurch to which the Patriarchs of Constantinople. Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Antiaeh have been invited, meets on the loth. One of the purposes of the meeting is the unlrockiug ol I ikhon. To-day. besides the Orthodox hotly there is in Russia the so-called Living Church. the Church of revival and the Unified Apostolic Church, which may he described respectively as the Red, Redder, Reddest. Most Russian monastiies Imre been converted into pi isuns and concentration camps. KEMAILS NEW PARTY. (Received this day at lI.Jo a.m.) LONDON, April 9. The “Daily Mail’s.’’ Constantinople correspondent states Kcmal has launched n new party known as the Peoples Party. In a manifesto to the nation, he says the task of the coming assembly will be peaceful progress. There will be no war. Points in his programme are the perpetual abolition of the Sultanate; the abolition of the Constantinople Cabinet and reduction of military service. The fact that the national pact is not mentioned suggests the Kemalists are reconciled to the renunciation already made at Lausanne of some territorial oUjeclites. The party is likely to he faced by strong opposition.

RUSSIAN 'PROPOSAL. COPENHAGEN, April 9. The Moscow correspondent cl the newspaper ‘‘l’nlitiken" -states at the coming (•(inference ol the Communists the Central Committee will submit a resolution demanding the complete reorganisation ol the administration, Russia proposing the abolition ol tlie Council of Commissioners, and the replacing of it by a Council of forty, who must be real Russians. Ibis restriction means that Trotsky, Stalin, Kamencff and Rndok cannot he members of the Council.