Show Internal In te rn al Wrangling Hurting Red Russia Food Foot Being Hoarded By MAXIMILIAN HARDEN Central Europe's Foremost Publicist PublicistS Special S Dispatch to The Standard-Examiner Standard Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Tress Association BERLIN Aug 20 The O.-The The quarrel between the Moscow 1 gov gov- government go government B and the opposition led lcd by Leon Trotsky and Gregoire le still is shrouded In mystery But Dut as the opposition Is In secret tc communication with foreign friends as In the czars czar's time and is carrying on Illegal missions and using false passports some news has leaked out After an interrupted but quarrel the most de debated de- de debated bated question is whether Stalin has bas vanquished or has vanquished Stalin Moscow has emphasized two Chinese developments de the flight of oC General Chiang Shek Kai and his replacement by Feng Yu Yu-Hsiang the friend of or Borodin as a inspired by b the communists Whether hether Feng Yu who is supposed to have abandoned Christianity because of or Chinas China's Christian op oppressors op- op oppressors has hns really become the successor in and whether he ha will hold out longer in his new friendship than in his religion or whether ho he will come soon to an understand understand- understanding ing with the powerful Peking marshal Chang Tso-Lin Tso re re- remains remaIns re- re remains mains to be seen So long as Japan is encircling more and more the Chinese Eastern railway and can threaten to separate and the coast provinces from Crom tho the soviet union bolshevism will not obtain vitality from this part of oC the tho far east Joy at the unsuccessful end of the Geneva naval confer confer- conference conference ence is still more foolish Coolish Instead of ot realizing how often in in- industrialists industrialists and financiers break off of negotiations and take them up again a aln finally doing profitable business together the Kremlin governors rejoiced that now there was the greatest enmity between America and England naval rivalry and almost immediately a a race of both powers for Cor the purchase of Russian oil treasures beginning with the Standard Oil Shell transaction Americans they say sa do not know what to do with wills their dollars and if H we concede them the much coveted Pacific oil and coal stations in or en England will be out in the cold This is all propaganda In in- Intended intended tended to illuminate dark reality The newspaper intimates that Russia can only hope for Cor a middling harvest han In Tn north and central Russia there has been too little rain and in there has been too much Exports of corn are scarcely to be thought of and the peasant who receives recel ludicrous prices from the state for corn but must pay dearly for Cor farm Carm Implements naturally is opposing the sale of oC his Isis product since daily dally reports of com corn coming comIng ing log war make him fear another famine Among the townspeople also tales of oC an approaching soviet anti-soviet campaign by b the capitalist powers are having ha their effect Those who still have a little money are hoard hoard- hoarding hoarding ing food clothes fuel Cuel etc Tradesmen are hiding their wares to sell them during the war at great profit and already new inflation symptoms are felt Celt Money is never lacking for Cor the army and propaganda is working In Vienna Teheran and Boston Doston But Dut agri agri- agriculture agriculture culture lacks capital Badly paid and hungry industrial work work- Frs rs are grumbling impatiently that the Kremlin is feeding them on words and forcing them them 8 8 to 10 per cent of oC the people people to to produce two-thirds two of the stale state budget Under pressure of oC foreign and domestic difficulties Stalin Slain decided to wreak vengeance on Fifteen thou thou- sand arrests and hundreds of oC exe exe- executions executions executions were the overture to the tenth birthday of or Bolshevist rule rufe As confident of oC the tho peasant Stalin does not fear Cear overthrow by bythe bythe bythe the leaders of the town prole prole- proletariat And as the red militarists are easily entangled in their own propaganda lies he hopes hop s that before the winter frost trost a trade race with the Soviets will have begun and that the gulf SUI stream of oC capital and credit will melt the hard crust of famine |