GROWING WORSE
SITUATION IN RUSSIA CIVIL WAR FEARED ' GOVERNMENT TAKING PRECAUTIONS 'By Eleotrio Telegraph-Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Canb Association.) "LONDON. Ilth Oct. The "Daily News" Helsingfors correspondent reports that. the. Russian situation is growing worse and civil war is feared. Opposition to the Soviet is increasing throughout, the country, esl(nc*ial{y in Kmustladl-, .Moscow and' Ukraine, the last-named demanding independence. The Government anticipates crushing any outbreak within 48 hours. Troops have already occupied strategic, points. A Riga, message slates that the Soviet is taking urgent measures to re-establish army discipline, which oppositionists have 'undermined. Cavalry has been sent to suppress outbreaks in the southwest, where, it. is believed, a minor peasant, revolution is likely. Berlin reports.state that it is reported that. Trotsky and ZinovielT were arrested and their- immediate liauisliineiil to Siberia is. e.speyled.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 October 1926, Page 5
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