THE RED MENACE

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17064, 8 February 1921, Page 7

THE RED MENACE

DESIGNS ON ASIA BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA. (Bv Cable —Press A jaticr.—Copyright.) ("The Time#.") LONDON, February 4. Commissarv Eliawar has reported to tho Bremen Bolshevik Conference on propaganda in Asia, and particularly India. Hatred of England permeates tho report. English soldiers at Baku aie scribed as "impudent mercenaries. He looks to the hour when Bolshevism will dispose of them. There will, ho says, be millions of Asiatic fellow-combatants. John Bull already shows that his teeth are powerless in a tight bridle. "Re will overthrow him in India. It is expected that the Mohammedans in Turkestan will adopt Socialism. Thev will plav the part of a bridge to India. Our network of agitation win gradually spread. To-day it stretches to Afghanistan, and thence to North India." At tho Samarkand Congress, held in February, 1920, there were de egates not only from Afghanistan, the Pamirs, and Malaya, but from Inner India and 'Ceylon. As a result of the conference we established active liaison with the whole of India and Southern Persia, facilitating direct intercourse/ with Turkey, Arabia, and Egypt. The Congress served as a foundation for a League of Eastern Liberation, controlling Turkestan and sending emissaries to Mongolia, Mohammedan China, and the Punjab. In Samarkand we have the best school for training propagandists. We turned out, in the last nine months of the year, 3500 instructors. Chief attention is paid to the Indian races. Only full converts are sent to India. The most valuable classes at Delhi and Benares are working splendidly under the eyes of the Englishmen, At Delhi, we founded six or seven schools 'last year. By November there were 1900 active, subscribing members. The sum of £120,000 had been collected, and the regular monthly subscriptions amounted to £15,000. TREACHERY IN SIBERIA. (Australian and N.2. Cablo Association.) COPENHAGEN. February 5. A Moscow message states that, according to the Soviet newspaper "Isvestia," a special Soviet tribunal at Tomsk found the entire Revolutionary Committee in Siberia guilty of treacherous negotiations with^Japan. Six were shot, and the others were sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Soviet is arranging an agreement with China against Japan. INTRIGUES DENIED. (Received February 7th, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, February 7. M. Tchitcherin, replying to Lord Curzon, denies the existence of Bolshevist intrigues in the Mid-East, and, on the contrary, charges the Allies with aiding anti-J3olshevists there, and elsewhere. He suggestg that a discussion is the best means of removing any misunderstanding. SOVXETISTS IN FRANCE. (Received February 7th, 9.30 p.m.) PARIS,-February 7. Arrests of suspected Soviet agents continue. They include tho editor of "L'Humanite," who is charged with accepting Soviet money.