CRISIS FOR THE SOVIET.
DISRUPTION IN BANKS. TROTZKY HOW DANGEROUS. PLOT TO SEIZE POWER. FEARS OF A REBELLION. Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 8.55 p.m.) Renter-Times. LONDON. July 30. Despatches from Riga state that, reports from Moscow confirm the news of disruption in Soviet ranks. It is stated that Trotzky had planned tc visit a regiment the troops belonging to which were loyal to him, with the object of persuading them to march on the capital and seize the Kremlin and the Government offices. The plot was frustrated, however, and the Soviet is considering Trotzky's arrest. It is feared that to arrest him would cause a rebellion owing to his influence with the Army. The deposed president of the Third (Communist) International, Zinovfeff, is being kept under close surveillance. The friction between the extreme and the moderate Communists may end in violence. The Riga correspondent of the Times confirms the report that the Soviet has dismissed the president of the Military Council, Laschevich, from all his posts. He says Unschticht has been appointed Deputy-Commissar of War, Voroshilloff Commissar of the Fleet, and Bubnoff, Military and Naval Commissar.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19394, 31 July 1926, Page 9
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186CRISIS FOR THE SOVIET. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19394, 31 July 1926, Page 9
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