BOLSHEVIST MENACE
PENETRATION IN iHB!A BRITISH POSSESSIONS THREATENED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DELHI, July 8. Convincing evidence of the reality of tho Bolshevist menace in India, is furnished by Colonel haunders, Director of Military Intelligence in India. Colonel Saunders states that in Afghanistan tho Soviet has given subsidies for arms and ammunition. _ Russian engineers are constructing rail and telephone lines and roads. The Algiian Air Force has Russian pilots and, mechanics. Tho main aerodrome is at Kabul, from which the frontier stations can be bombed. Kabul is now an important propaganda centre for work in India. Tho Afghan Government sees the danger of Soviet penetration and of being forced into war with Britain at the dictation of its Soviet friends. Colonel Saunders also states that penetration is going forward on the borders of Burma. Tho movement generally is a serious menace to peace in the British possessions in the East, and if tho Soviet policy continues ho fears war during the present generation.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19298, 10 July 1926, Page 4
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