Jan, 17.
The Moscow correspondent of the <"Borliner, Tageblatt" states that Comrade Trotsky left yesterday for. Wierny, on the Chinese-Turkestan frontier. Interviewed prior to departure, the correspondent says, Comrade Trotsky appeared indi ent as to his personal fat He said that the world revolution ws progressing now for the first ti since 1923 and predicted a general movement in the various countries of Europe towards social democracy, from which, he declared, communism would finally gain.
Trotsky said that he was not: certain that a Labour Government in England with Liberal tendencies would desire closer relations with Russia or make any concession to the Soviet—Reuter.
All Leaders of Opposition Banished London, Jan. 18.
Reuter's Moscow correspondent, writing under date of January 14, says that all Opposition leaders of every shade and character have been ordered to proceed to various distant points and there remain in definitely. They have been divided into three groups for purposes of tents" and "non-penitents'
'Trotsky, Rakovsky and Radek head the "non-penitents:" they abide by their principles. Their Punishment is, therefore, more drastic. Rakovsky and Radek will be sent to Sesolsk, a small town in the Komi region' bordering on Archangel. 'Trotsky's health (he tubercular) has caused a difticulty. The doctors opposed sending him to Astrakhan, while the Gov-Genet appeted the: coetrs'
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