BRITAIN’S BITTER ENEMY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 February 1926, Page 8

BRITAIN’S BITTER ENEMY.

THIS BOLSHEVIK BORODIN. Tlie manifestation of Bolshvik influeence in China is of the first importance to Australia and New Zealand, the ceaseless activity of Russian intelectuals being a menace to the future of the peoples in the Pacific. ■Sir Petrcival Phillips, 'Special correspondent of the Daily Mail, who is investigating conditions in China, states that all Bolshevik propaganda is concentrated against Britain. The ituglish-printed daily Canton Gazette, nominally edited by a Moscow-trained Chinese, but actually controlled by a

Russian woman writer from the Soviet Pi •ess Bureau, is a familiar specimen of the material used by the Reds in their attempt to destroy tb e , British Empire. The Communist “courses” for Chinese students at-Canton have it as their keynote. The glib-tongued Russian agitators now proselytising in the province preach hatred of England first and hatred of capitalism second. Russia began to exploit Canton more than two years ago, when the late Sun Yat Sen still ruled thei-e. Jacob Borodin was sent from Moscow to make friendly overtures to that discontented leader of young China. Jacob Borodin is a Lettish Jew who lived in exile in Switzerland with Lenin and Trotsky, and with them returned to Russia in time to profit by the Bolshevik rise to power. His real name is unknown here. £200,000 FROM MOSCOW.

Borodin tempted Sun Yat Sen with offers of assistance. He pointed out what could be done in China with a small but well-armed body of ,resolute men. He recalled the success of General Gordon. Bolsheviks began drifting into Canton inconspicuously. Borodin returned to Moscow a year ago, and his report on the possibilities oi' seducing South China so impressed Zinovieff that, he was sent back early in this year with instructions to begin an intensive campaign.

The Soviet granted a subsidy of £20,000 to. the Whampoa. Academy, which was founded to provide officers for the future Chinese Red Army, and also agreed to defray, the running expenses, amounting to £25,000 a month. This so-called academy has bred the nucleus of the army now operating in the province of Kwangchung under ltussian leadership. To-day the flower of the Red Army consists of some 6000 Chenkiang troops, well officered and well disciplined, augmented by about 3000 other levies. The Russian leaven is increasing. The most conservative estimate I have obtained places the number of Russians actually enrolled in this organisation at 500.

.1 acob Borodin moved quietly until the beginning of this year, when he decided that the time had come to take the offensive. The Red Army (also known from its origin as the Whampoa Cadets) its first campaign, occupying Swatow and driving the anti-Bolshevik troops out. The opposition to Bolshevism in the province of Kwangtung led to the Yunnanese troops occupying Canton and Hu U an-man, the Red Governor, being evicted. (He is now in Moscow as the guest of the Soviet.)

BRIBED TO FIRE ON CHINESE. Then the Red Army came back to Canton and attacked on June 6. After several days’ fighting, the Yunnanese wore defeated. These two operations gave the Whampoa Cadets great prestige. B orodin then began a violent propaganda campaign against the t reties and the Treaty Bowers and tried to arouse public opinion. He was largely unsuccessful. Even when a sympathetic strike was declared on June 21. following the incidents at Shanghai, the population failed to respond enthusiastically. It was necessary to create an “incident.” A great procession of students, workers’ guilds, and coolies was organised in Canton for June 23. It would have passed off peaceably but for Russian intervention. Two Russians, one of them named Ivanovitch, fired—by arrangement—into tlie crowd as the procession was passing near Shameen, the foreign settlement. Immediately afterwards Chinese guns, which had been concealed on housetops the night before, also opened fire. • Two Frenchmen were killed and many other people wounded. The fire was returned from the foreign settlement as the Russians anticipated, and Canton rose in fury. More than a month later the companion o .f Ivanovitch confessed that they had been bribed to begin firing, and his only concern was that it had taken him "three weeks to collect ,±be blood money from Borodin. CAMPAIGN OF HATE. Upon the so-called “Shameen incident” the Russians built a substantial campaign of hate against Great Britain. Although French troops had joined in the counter fire, France was not included in the boycott. Throughout the length and breadth of Kwangtung provinoe the Russian-inspired propagandists spread the story of a British (attaqk upon unarmed and harmless coolies. The Russians determined to carry the war into Hongkong itself. From their Bolshevik headquarters at Shanghai a trusted agent, one Zinovieff Nikolaievitcli Dosser, was sent into British territory to organise disorder. Dosser landed in Hongkong on June ■Jo with his wife, Eugenie Mikhailovna Dosser (who was in charge of propaganda among the women), and a passport which described him with, characteristic Bolshevik falsity as “General manager of the Petroleum Office of Trade.” He was detained.