PREMIER'S SOCIALIST SON.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 7

PREMIER'S SOCIALIST SON.

PRISONER OF BOLSHEVISTS. WANTED FOR EXECUTION. fP.y Cable. —Pres? Association.—Pnpyrleht.l LONDON", May 25. A remarkable story is told in the "Westminster Gazette , ' of an interview with Mr. Oliver Baldwin, son of the new Prime Minister. Oliver is a.jjerl 24. a typical school man. lit , served in the Irish Guards during the war, ami since has suffered prison, starvation, and almost death in the cause of Socialism. "In September. 1920." he said, "I wont to Armenia as an army instructor during the Turkish-Armenian war. We were beaten by ihe Turks in November. The next month the Bolsheviks swept down'and threw mc into gaol with other Socialists. T being the only nonArmenian member of tiie Dashna-kzutun. one of the most powerful social revolutionary bodies, 1 was released on parole after six weeks in prison. I went about Seeing how Bolshevism worked. 1 left for Turkey in March. 1921, with a Kemalist passport, which new 1 know was only a trap. "I was arrested hy the Turks at Alex andropol and sent to prison in Kara for a month. Then to another prison where chains were put on my feet. I was starved for five months. The Bolshevikwanted mc hack for execution, but the Turks kept. mc. I saw two Communists executed outside my window. Then an exchange was made and 1 was released. I walked from Erzerum to Trnbizoud. "The British Labour party has broken my heart, because while ostensibly helonging to the second international they back up the Moscow third international. which murders anyone speaking in defence of public rights. "I am going To British East. Africa In September, where with nature as mc common enemy men are united in building up instead of pulling down."—(.-.. and X.Z. Cable.)