RED RUSSIA.
I A ANOTHER FAMINE REVOLT. DEMOBILISATION REJECTED. (A. and N.Z. Cable). HELSINGFORS, February 16. Lenin, at a meeting of the Central Soviet in Moscow, proposed to reduce the army by 50 per cent, in order to reduce the difficulty of provisioning,, and in deference to the wishes of the American famine Delegation. In consequence of a violent protests from Trotsky, Lenin’s proposal was rejected, Trotsky saying that demobilisation was impossible in view of the general situation in Europe. - ' A famine revolt has broken out in the provincß of Tcherson, and large armed forces are advancing on the town of Tcherson, which the starving people threaten to sack.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15127, 18 February 1922, Page 5
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