NEW ZEALAND AND RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20302, 30 July 1931, Page 13

NEW ZEALAND AND RUSSIA.

§l' lo TEE EV.io? or 'nr.: i-ar-i* I have a curious interest- in Ltusi&i j, B t t like the majority oi men, have lijifU knowledge of r.ffairs in tliat counS|r y o ar correspondent, Captain Rhtmacfflio writes with an air Ijjf'lß&prity and doubtless Juts authenflir information. I would like to ask iio. therefore, through your columns, me, as an honest seeker after jJji his sources of information and of proof of the various stateyioßta he makes in his udmirable, but, }f I may my a °. somewhat vague, letter in tody's , j. have boon tola ul the uappi- *'«» aid contentment of the llu.ssiun •sitter, act, certainly, by a despicable f««i»ner in a second-class railway carssffl? bat by more cunning and probjy T anscrapulouß gentlemen who have Ercd in and studied Eussia and have MsbMed tits results of their investigates io KSpectable-looking books. c?o flit jf Captain Hennessy would supply s« with the truth, of which he obviously has possession, I would bo extend* gratefnl, as it would enable me te rtfite the arguments of the Russian jMpsgsndiit. (1) How does be know that Russia a controlled by an "unscrupulous (Ug"t I hire always instinctively bolted that men Vho cannot accept the rtatnry-oMi disposition of society and the benefits of private ownership of Coital must be wholly evil i« fliir aowJ.outlook, liut my instinebeeft.sorely troubled a such apparently prolqjj| magazines as "Current Hisalks of the Bolshevist "men of brilliant minds, cuihtyiai idealistic fervour." $ Q%at is the 'wage standard of ; to-day, and how does it compare | lift tiewagea of pre-war Russia or' tift British ndiat Again, I have been | Mi Sitt wages n real value have inWWdbyow 100 per cent, since Czarit tianasd re infinitely higher than tis surely is a lie. i , P) Wiat did happen o the British , £ «j*W invested n JBussian oil? Dr. , ' Leaiie strong, the American wko spent several years in Bust the beginning of the ' wrohrtioa, the oil-wells were flooded 1 <# almost totally estroyed by the for- I mowrs irtth the attempt to overwwr tie Soviet regime; and that So- , jrSj,**PMers and workmen had to jjjwdap the whole Baku oil-fields again. ' fcSi ' ® ov ' Government of- ' compensate all foreigners wh6 mone y * n the Eevolu- '■ » a fi nanc i a l interests S] 8 ™ re^ue ed to accept tho basis of '• offered demanding, instead money value for jiSj®*'*°®pl6te return of properties, I'Sv" Strong must surely have been ! Mb Bolshcviki to put forward J ??^®P , Ban8 and a. >? irito!?*t* ? nptain Hennessy could let 'tr &«*...! information which, judging ■tfw i 00r dogmatic assertions ffitu t 1 r ' he undoubtedlv has, I •'j?™ exceedingly obliged.—Yours. ' DIOGENES.