SOVIET WAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 286, 2 December 1929, Page 3

SOVIET WAY

MAINTAINING TLE CAUSE Two brothers named Grigorovitch a»d their closest associates, members of the Committee of Twelve, have been executed by the North Caucasian political police, cables the Christian Science Monitor’s Moscow correspondent, on a charge of heading a secret organisation which had attempted to foment an armed uprising against the Soviet Government from the remote mountain village of BabukaUl. in the neighbourhood of Sochi. It is alleged that an underground Committee of Twelve was established here which sent agitators to the Cossack settlements in North Caucasus for the purpose of winning adherents, criticising the Soviet Government and obstructing Soviet economic policies. The organisation is also accused of purchasing firearms with the view of an ultimate armed revolt. Among the leaders, besides the Grigorovitches, who were ex-officers, are mentioned the exabbess of an Iberian monastery and an acquaintance of the Tsarist family, Maria Makrovskaya, the former owner of a leather factory in Chernishev.

In view of the strained situation in the villages in connection with bitter dissatisfaction regarding the more prosperous peasants, and the present Soviet policy of requisitioning grain, the authorities are displaying special vigilance in detecting aggressive movements and mete out specially severe punishment of offenders.