RUSSIAN SOVIETS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19691, 19 January 1926, Page 9

RUSSIAN SOVIETS

LEADERS FALL FROM GRACE. CONCESSIONS TO THE RICH. CONTRARY TO SOVIET PRINCIPLES. (Trees Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) MOSCOW, January 16. The Soviet has decided to accept the invitation of the League of Nations to participate in the preliminary disarmament conference, and not to object to participation of the Soviet- experts in the preliminary Commission on economic subjects, provded that these Commissions do not meet on Swiss territory. Presumably as the result of the sharp divergences manifested at the recent Communist Congress a number of important changes have been made in official appointments, inter alia, M. Kameneff is relieved of the presidency of the Council of Labour and the assistant presidency of the Council of Commissaries, and becomes Commissary of Foreign and Home Trade in succession to M. Zuriupa. M. Rykoff combines the presidency of the Council of Labour and Defence and the presidency of the Council of Commissaries. Commissary Frumkin is relieved of the Commissariat of Finance and takes up the assistant presidency of the State Planning Committee. The reshuffling also affects a number of the lesser-known leaders. It is reported that much unrest prevails among the peasantry, particularly in the Ukraine and White where armed anti-Bolsheviks are active. The murders of over-zealous Communist officials are reported, chiefly in the Bobruisk district, .where the militia and local authorties, is is alleged, have refused to act agansb thq rebels, and are even cooperating with them. —Reuter. IMPORTANT CHANGES. LONDON, January 17. The Moscow correspondent of the Daily News says that, following on the recent dispute at the Communist Congress, when M. Zinovieff, M. Kameneff, and M. Sokolnikoff violently attacked the Soviet’s new economic policy on the ground of its being a concession to the rich peasants, involving fundamental changes in the Soviet’s principles, M. Kameneff and M. Sokolnikoff respectively resigned the VicePresidency of the Council of Commissars and the Commissarship of Finance. Both accepted minor Cabinet posts, but the fact remains that they have fallen from their former high positions. M. ZinoviefTs position is also precarious. The Cabinet believes that his power in Leningrad, of which he is mayor, menaces the party, and it is practically certain that he will be removed from both the mayoralty and the presidency of the Third International. The editor of the newspaper Pravda, M. ZinoviefTs champion, has already been dismissed. M. Rykoff has undertaken M. Kameneff’s duties.—Sydney Sun Cable.