SOVIET PROPAGANDA

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 37, 12 August 1927, Page 3

SOVIET PROPAGANDA

CHILDREN'S TRIP TO RUSSIA

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

. . LONDON, 29th. June. Ihe six children, five boys and one girl, selected by the British Young Comrades' i/eague to visit Soviet Russia, have sailed by the Soviet-owned steamer, Youahar bound for Petrograd. They are to be the guests of the Russian Red Scouts, and they are under the charge of two adult Communists, Mr. M'llhone, of Glasgow, and Mrs. Jennie Gallagher, of CarnberwelL .London.

It will be remembered that when they were ready to proceed, a week or two ago, the Home Secretary put a ban on the project by refusing to grant passports, lliis prevented the party from proceeding across Europe by train. The Communist .Party were not to be deterred, however and they have now sent the children off by direct steamer. In these circumstances it will not be necessary for them to bave passports, as they will cross no other countries, and they are bound to be allowed into Great Britain again—they are British subjects. It is said that two of the children were in possession of passports, but where these were obtained it is not possible to say.

Shortly before the turn of the tide a day or two ago, a number of taxi-cabs drove up to the Free Trade Wharf near London Bridge, where the Youshar was lying, and deposited the sis children and then- two guardians. The party at once hurried on board the vessel and went bei°^i Aa ?" ar, tcr to seven the Youshar sailed. As the boat passed down stream the passengers kept below, and when a end at 8.50 p.m. the children were not to be seen.

The names of the children are:—Nancy Jiall, aged 12, daughter of an unemployed Durham miner; Edward Paton, aged 12, of Glasgow; Thomas Stevenson, aged 12 son of a Fife miner; William Baker, aged 10, of St. Pancras; Clifford Roberts, aged 13, son of a South Wales miner; Edward Turner, aged 12, of Manchester.

The bodies from which they were selected are all actively encased in poisoning the minds of British children with Bolshevik propaganda, and include Socialist Sunday-schools, the Young Comrades' League, the Co-operative Comrades' Circle, and the Miners' Minority Movement.

In addition to the children, half-a-dozen Russians, some of whom had been employed by Arcos, sailed in the Youshar,