CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17554, 8 November 1928, Page 7

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENTS WHITE ARMY OFFERS TRAINING. GREAT FEAR OF FAMINE. (By TelegraDH.—Presa Assn. —CODyrttrhLJ (Australian Press Association). (Received Nov. 8, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 7. The numerous reports of economic stress in Russia are encouraging the enemies of Soviet rule, and it is expected there will be dramatic developments in Russia. General Lucomsky, who was General Denikin's Minister of War, is now in Paris organising military, academies, while the officers of the White Army are training in the principal cities in Europe and America. General Koutiepov, who was aide-de-camp to the Grand Duke Nicholas, has been appointed leader of the White Army. Meanwhile reports from Riga state the fear of famine is creating an urgent demand for the nationalisation of the Ukraine, which with a population of 40,000,000, considers it is entitled to decide its own fate. The Central Soviet authorities, however, are unsympathetic, as the Ukraine is Russia's granary. The Kuraks, who are of the wealthypeasant class, are leading the resistance to Moscow. Hitherto the Kuraks have relied on passive resistance, but are now introducing a policy of violence, including the burning of Bolshevik communist stores and grain belonging to the communist peasants. Moscow officially denies the possibility of famine.