SOVIET ENGLAND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 169, 1 May 1935, Page 6

SOVIET ENGLAND

PLAN BY COMMUNISTS.

DISSOLVE THE EMPIRE.

MILITARISM AND FINANCE,

(United Press Association—Copyright.) , RIGA, April 30.

While Anglo-Russian relations are becoming increasingly! cordial, the Communist International has published “a programme for Sovietising England." This declares that life in England is unbearable and that the masses, guided by the British section of the Third International, must seriously embark on destroying the present system. When armed forces are disbanded, the English Soviets will stand before the world with clean hands, enabling the building up of Red army and navy tribunals, the programme declares. One of the first measures will be to dissolve the Empire and cancel all governmental and private loans and investments in India, the Dominions and the colonies, thus freeing them of burdensome tribute to Great Britain. Soldiers and officials will be withdrawn from India and Ireland, enabling them to set up their own Soviets.

“TREACHERY AND HUMBUG.” ATTACK BY “DAILY MAIL.” (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The “Daily Mail,” in a leading article, says that the Comintern’s manifesto proves the absurdity of trusting the Soviet. Moscow’s reception of Mill. A. Eden was an additional example of treachery and humbug. “Do the Bolsheviks think our statesmen are children?” asks the “Mail.” “Can we he hoodwinked by such hypocrisy? The Comintern, with its lunatic programme, is part of the Russian Government of thugs and' brigands.