Organising Disorder.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16515, 10 June 1919, Page 6

Organising Disorder.

The news from Berlin that between the Bolshevists of Germany and Russia a plan is elaborated to organise the Bnl-i!iovi?ts in most of the European • countries is old news, except so far as Germany's share in the business is concerned. Lenin, the head of Russian ; Bolshevism, has been organising for ) many months a propaganda system 11 which not only embraces Europe, but 5 J contemplates the ro;;f|Uest of the world. I Already his agents of disorder have acsj fomplished much. Hungary and Ausj tria have been infected. Turkey, the 3 old-established Balkan States, and 5 some of the new ones that hare 5 emerged from the war, are showing signs of unrest, and thero are undoubtedly Bolshevist emissaries at work in all the other countries of Europe, ' not even omitting Great Britain. A Glasgow revolutionary who served a sentence for sedition was nominated ! not long ago by Lenin as one of his representatives in the west, and was subsequently chosen by the so-called International Communist Congress, held bv the Soviet dictators at Moscow, as "President of the Soviet Republic of England." Eugene Debs, the American anarchist now serving a sentence for sedition and conspiracy was similarly elected President of the Soviet Republic of America. Propaganda work in Eastern Europe is mostly being carried on by ex-prisoners of war, who are formed into camps for purposes of instruction and given the choice of going on with the work or starving. hilo busy in Europe, Lenin is not oblivious of the opportunities offered by Asia. Bolshevism is said t. to have raised its head in China, but its operations there are not likely at present to be of any great importance. Penetration must begin in more favourable soil and thence spread eastward. The Government of India have proof that the war on India by Afghanistan was fomented and assisted by Russian Bolshevists, in co-operation with German agents, and the disorders in India have no doubt been aided, if not inspired, by Lenin s agents. Last year, as shown by a letter which a "Times" correspondent saw, Bolshevist representa-1 tives in Stockholm managed to send large sums of money, amounting altogether to £25,000, besides a quantity of explosives, to Bombay, and Bolshevist workers in India predicted with accuracy tho approximate date when the revolutionary agitation in India would come to a head. Persia and Turkestan are other countries in which the Bolshevist leaven has been started, and the Soviet official organ published in Moscow, not long ago claimed—with what truth cannot of course be estimated that the Bureau of Moslem Communists had issued four million pamphlets and leaflets in tho languages of the Tartars, Turks, Kirghiz, Hindoos, and Persians. So far as Central Europe is concerned, the conditions have been favourable to Lenin's projects. The country, as Dr. Harold Williams wrote in March last, "is " wrecked and ruined; it has lost the "material props of common-sense and "sound judgment. Every adventurer "will fish in these turbid and surging " waters. All the embittered and the " despairing—and there are thousands " and thousands of them—the reaction- ' " aries, the unrepentant militarists, "will recklessly join in this movement "of destruction in the hope of some"how attaining at last their own " ends." That Bolshevism, as it ob- . tains in Russia, will simply lead them from disorder and distress into sheer unmitigated anarchy, is as certain as anything can be, but unless Leninism falls into disrepute through defeat, that knowlodge will, it is to bo feared, be no deterrent to its widespread acceptance for a time.