20 AUGUST 1927, Page 2

* * * These things by no means exhaust the

troubles of the Central Committee. Separatist movements are going on in the Ukraine, White Russia, the Caucasus, and even in the " Tartar Republic." The Riga correspondent of the Times says that the Ukraine movement is the, most important. All these separatist communities accuse the Central Committee of exercising an oppressive power by intense centralization, and they see in declarations of independence the only means of regaining their freedom. * * * *