RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16987, 9 November 1920, Page 7

RUSSIA.

LENIN'S FUTURE PLANS,

(By Cable—Press Aesooiitioa—Copyright.) ("TEe Tiinee,") LONDON, November 6. Lenin has at last broken the silence since the Polish reverses. Discussing his future plans with Moscow sympathisers, ho declared his invincible determination to bring about a world revolution. The Reds- defeat in Poland mado a bigger field of operations imperative, in order to restore their prestige. Ho intended to attack Franco and Great Britain by means of extensive propaganda in North Africa and India. 110 exclaimed: "Wo ehall succeed! We shall smash tho Versailles Peace and bring the wholo world to our feet!" The military plans include on immediate effort to crush General Wrangel. Lenin added that Poland's turn would come later. Ho displayed tihe bitterest hatred towards Poland, but added that Poland was not an unmixed evil, because German hatred 1 of Poland brought Germany to Russia's side. Germany's passive resistance to the Versailles Treatv helped tho Bolsheviks by "keeping Europe in a state of insecurity. Lenin concluded: The Germans seek revenge. We Beek revolution! O-ur interests are identical for the timo being, but tho Germans will become our enemies when the question of the new Gorman ligemony arises, and the Communistic Federation is raised on the ruins of old Europe. Tho latest authentic news from Russia discpunts the stories of tho counterrevolution, which Qiave been greatly exaggerated. Mndame Nadot, widow of a Moscow tunkor, who was included in tho last batch of prisoners returned to France, says Trotzky's iron discipline is likely tr\ the collnnso of Bolshevism. The army is unpopular and hated, but the peasants' indifference and fatalism -ind the cringing servility of tfha town populations prevent any large-eealo opposition developing. Everyone is compelled to "keen a work-book showing tho hours laboured. If they are insufficient, the people aTo compelled to work in scavenging and wood-chopping gangs, or go foodless. BLACK SEA BLOCKADE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, November 7. A Moscow, wireless messajio 6tatoa that tho United States rejected tho proposal of Franco to join in a blockado of Soviet Russia on tho Black Sea coast.