SOVIET RUSSIA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 268, 12 October 1932, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA

ACTIVITY OF GUARDS.

NEW ZEALANDER ARRESTED. PHOTOGRAPHING FORBIDDEN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Reoeived October 12, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 11.

An Aucklander, Mr K, E. Bullen, now of Cambridge, who is on a vacation tour in Russia, alighted from a train near the Polish border to photograph a military centre when the Soviet armed guards pounced on him. Ho was taken to the local Court and acquitted with a caution. Mr Bullen was allowed to return home next morning. Mr Bullen saw an Australian tourist similarly detained in Moscow where he was photographing forbidden buildings. ALLEGATIONS OF PLOTTING. COMMUNISTS EXPELLED FROM PARTY. Received October 12, 9.30 a.m. MOSCOW, Oct. 11. On the ground that they had associated with a group plotting to create a bourgeois and peasants’ organisation designed to restore capitalism, 20 leading Communists, including Zinovieff and Kameneff, were expelled from the party. Most of them had previously been expelled, but had recanted and been readmitted.

M. Zinovieff will bo best remembered for the Zinovieff letter, the purport of which was the undermining of the authority of the British army. The publication of the letter on the eve of the 1524 election resulted in the defeat of the first British Labour Administration undr Mr Ramsay MacDonald, among tho planks of tho policy on which it had gone to tho country being trade with Russia. .