COMMUNIST CONGRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20287, 21 December 1927, Page 9

COMMUNIST CONGRESS

TROTSKYITES EXPELLED. PRAISE FOR THE CHEKA. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) RIGA, December 19. The Communist Congress finally expelled Trotsky, Zinovieff, Rakovsky Kameneff, Radek, and 95 others. The Trotskyites are warned that they will be considered counter-revolutionaries. The congress ominously praised the Cheka (Ogpu), which will continue to clear out the enemies as formerly.—Sydney Sun Cable.

REQUESTS FOR READMISSION

CASES TO BE CONSIDERED,

MOSCOW, December 19

Twelve oppositionists, including Zenovieff and Kameneff. have -ent ■ declaration of entire submission to the Communist Party’s demands, and requesting readinission. They have oeen informed that their cases will be considered individually.—A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable.

THE APPLICATIONS GRANTED.

SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS

MOSCOW, December 19..

(Received Doc. 20, at 7.20 p.m.)

The terms of the congress of the Communist Party to Oppositionists were that th e applications for reinstatement should be accepted bv the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission, subject to their being made individually, 1 and that' admission be permitted in six months’ time, provided the applicants’ activities in the meantime conform to their own pledges and the party’s decisions. Trotsky presumably has not applied.— •A. and N.Z. Cable.