BOLSHEVIK REVOLT
SEVENTEENTH' ANNIVERSARY. MOSCOW CELEBRATION. (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, November 7. The Moscow correspondent of the “Manchester Guardian” says Moscow last night was electrically ablaze and heavily decorated in preparation of today’s. celebration of the seventeenth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Every building carried some form of red decoration and many were floodlit, including a 15-storey hotel, which is almost finished, and the 12storey building of the Council of Commissars.
The facade of the latter bears a fulllength photograph of Stalin, ten storeys high. Close by a huge representation of the locks in the Moscow-Volga Canal, with real water, is noticeable.
CANADIAN INDIGNATION
HOLIDAY FOR A SCHOOL,
(Received 12*80 p.m.)
EDMONTON. November 7
The action of the School Board at Elairemore. a coalmining town, in declaring a school holiday to mark the 17th anniversary of the Russian revolution, has created a furore throughout the province. There have been hundreds of protests to the Government, coupled with a demand that the Government school grant be cut off.
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Northern Advocate, 8 November 1934, Page 5
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