SOVIET DIVIDED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1926, Page 8

SOVIET DIVIDED.

INVITATION TO GENEVA. SCHEMERS BUSY. LONDON, Jan. 8. New dissensions have occurred among the Bolshevik leaders regarding participation in the League of Nations’ Disarmament Conference. The Riga correspondent of the Times says that since America’s decision to attend a strong section favours accepting this opportunity of sitting alongside Americans and turning to the Soviet’s advantage the conflicts which very probably will arise. Another section urges the use of Switzerland’s boycott of the Soviet as a pretext for refusing the invitation. This view is voiced also byjthe Soviet’s official organs, -which, despite Switzerland’s readiness to accord Soviet delegates the same rights of security as others, declare it is impossible to participate in the conference until the boycott is officially raised e PROPAGANDA IN CHINESE. The first number of a weekly printed in Chinese lias been published in Moscow. Ostensibly it represents the interests of Chinese living in Russia, but actually it is an organ of the Communist International, by which it is linanced.