New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
Soviet Env0ys
ToBe Ousted
By Germany
Moscow Delegates Held
Under Strict Surveil-
lance of Police Pending
Passage Over Border

BERLIN, Oct. II (By The Associated
Press).-M. Zinovieff and NJ Losowsky,
Russian Soviet delegates to the in
dependent Socialist conference at
Halle, have been ordered by the Ger
man government to leave the country.
Their expulsion will be carried out
under direction of the Prussan Min
ister of Interior
Pending their departure the Rus
slams will be under close police surveiI-
lance and will not be permitted to re-
ceive or communicate with friends.
A Communist mass meeting to-day
was largely attended Police inter
vention was not required, however.
Zlnovieff Was present. but was too
hoarse to speak
HALLE, Oct. II (By The Associated
Press).-Two distinct revolutionary
parties, one pledged to the dictator
ship of the proletarat through an al
lance with the Third Internationale
the other working toward "proletarian
comradeship' in opposition to Moscow,
have developed out of the wreck of the
Independent Socialists
The Left majority under the leader
snip of Daumig, Adolf Hoffman, and
Otto Bass, the younger leader of Rhine
land labor, conferred to-day on the
question of executing an agreement
with Moscow for a world revolution,
and directed the district leaders to
prepare for a strike The minority
under the joint presidency of l.edebour
and Crispien, in a separate convention,
laid plans to communicate with the
revolutionary forces in all countries
opposed to Moscow and prepare an
organized campaign against Bolshevik
methods. They adopted Herr Lede-
hours resolution of sympathy with
bic opposition to the policy of destruc-
ton and terrorism" on which Soviet
ism proceeds.
ence of the party to the Third Inter
rationale of Moscow, the independent
Socialist conference elected Hoffman
as the party's pres dent The mi
nority faction, which had been de-
feated by vote of 237 to 1856 on the
question of adhesion to the Third In
ternationale previously had left the
hall, Cne communist wing cOntlnulnG e
in session. The minority members
went into secret session, but announced
that an open meeting Of their faction
would be held this morning
In the majority session, continuing
after the election of Herr Hoffman,
greetings on behalf of the Third Inter-
rationale were extended by novleff.
He urged the conference 80 send a rep
resentative to the Communist Inter
rationale organization.
Before the adoption of the majority
resolution, Georg Ledebour ~ d Her
rem Rosenfeld, Crispien and Dittmann
offered a compromise resolution pledg
ing the party to sympathy with Soviet
Russia, but declining to join an or
ganization seeking to promote world
revolution through terror and destruc
ton" This proposal, however, re-
coived scant conside ration.
fare-up was caused at one stage
of the debate by Herr Hoffman calling
Herr Ledebour an "old woman The
uproar was checked by Hoffman di-
rccting the members of his faction to
be seated. The debate, after some
little additional heckling, was con-
fined to few sentences by each
speaker
The two conventions adjourned, both
claiming the old party's name. The
struggle for the party machinery, in
cuding the Freiheit, is expected to be
fought out in Berlin.