Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04
TROTSKy'S SHIP HIT |
BY BLACK SEA GALE.
Soviet Steamer Believed Car.
rying Exile to New Haven
Is Driven to Port.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CONSTANTIPOLE, February A
raging storm, natures counterpart of
the political tempests his life has
known, held the secret today of Leon
Trotsky, Russian Soviet exile.
Somewhere on the galetossed waters
Of the Black Sea the Soviet steamer
Krasny Flott had sought haven from
the worst storm seen here in years.
Aboard the Krasny Flott-persistent
rumor has it's Trotsky, bound from
exile in Russian Turkestan to new
place of exile in European Turkey
Trotskys presence aboard the ship
could not be affirmed. There has been
no word of his having left Russia, al
though departure was believed to be
imminent. Such has been the mystery
with which the Soviet has surrounded
him, however, that this may indicate
nothing.
The ships agents here would not
deny his presence aboard. Probably not
until the storm clears and the ship it.
self Is located will be truth be known.
The agents announced the steamer, a
small boat, had put in at small Black
Sea port, which they declined to locate
also refusing TO express an opinion as
to when it might be expected to dock
here from Batum, where-lumor says
Trotsky boarded it.
Long Delay of Ship Seen.
There is general acceptance here now
that the Russian leader will be sent by
the Soviet to tfn country shortly, If he
is not already en- route, to continue his
exile.
There is no improvement In weather
conditions today, and the ships arrival
here may be long delayed. It Is small
vessel, and even II unchanged by the
gale, must have shown those aboard a
wild, rough trip.
There were numerous calls of dis
tress from other ships on the Black
Sea today.
Not to Lack Funds.
Reports from Berlin have it that
Trotsky. who once, with Nicolai Lenin,
might have been said to rule Soviet
Russia, will not lack funds in exile.
Royalties on his writings have been
forwarded regularly to him by the gov
eminent publishers of the Soviet Union,
it was said
The Militant, organ of the Trotsky
Communist wing in America today
publishes an article by the former war
chief of the Soviet in which he pre-
diets the rise Of "Bonaparte" in
Russia.
Whether the man on horseback will
be Stain himself" he wrote, 'or
whether Stain will be found trampled
under the horse, Is an untmportant
question. We must follow with the
greatest attention the processes which
are taking place in the army.
I'VE must not forget that In the June
report to the Moscow conference OF
party workers the Right leader. Ryknov,
referring to his friend Kiln lLieut.
Kasmir kim of Soviet air force, said:
"If you undertake any more extraordi-
nary measures, the army will answer
with an instruction.
That is a very significant formula
tion-half prophecy and half threat.
Indeed 1t may be three quarters threat.
But who Is making the threats? The
new property holders through the APP
paratus of the army. The apparatus
through kim. Here you have also, SO
to speak, the Bonapartist candidate,
Kim"
According to the group supporting
Trotsky, it was this utterance which led
to the final decision on the part OF the
Moscow government to expel him be-
yond the limits of the Soviet Union.