ANOTHER WARNING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 83, 22 March 1919, Page 7

ANOTHER WARNING

AG A J N"ST 1 11 E BOLSHE VI STS. no peace Possible Wild LEnin The following appeal was adopted, hfter speeches by Count Kokovtsoff and Prince Lvoff, at a meeting of the Russian Luncheon Club, held in London on December 16. smd attended by leading Russians, representative of various shades of Russian political opinion : - The war has route to u victorious eml. To the conquerors, front every side, come appeals for mercy. The Bolshevists, too, have joined the chorus o< Germans. Atistriwtiß, timA Jhilga ruins. I They ask for poae'e anti recugiißiioi. I They lire tKihg to buy the English People with pruinis.'s of wood and flax. They promise to pav their debts. They are tiyihg to draw English pifbliv opinion to their side by lobe assurances that thev have created, in Rnssi-i. mt ‘‘ordered’Staie, ami that the victims of their terror are negligible, in number. A part of the English Press has been taken in by this assutaiie? 'and pushes the English Government towards a pence, and later perhaps towards an alliance with the Bolshevists. The Russian olgaiiizatiotis in London think it their duty to warn Englishmen to tell them the real truth about the Bolshevists. They do not speak 0.0 those who long to see Bolshevism in this country. They ■ ■ • -. to whom the ideas of 1 reedotn anil democracy are still dear, and who aspire to see them embraced by all peoples and all countries. To them they sny—Beware 1 We know the Bolshevists. AVo have not forgotten that by betraying the cause of dennx iaey at the most critical moment, the Bolshevists placed a powerful weapon in German hands, and for the sake of party aims hazarded the' future' of Europe. We see am] know that their aim is to provoke a class war throughout the whole' vorhl, and create everywhere the same "ordered State" that they have (reared in Russia. Wc know, since >ve and our dearest have had experience of it, what the "ordered State" of Bolshevism really is. It is the negation of freedom ill all aspects—liberty of speech, liberty of the Press, liberty of thought, liberty of life. It is the lack of every guarantee, of all justice. It is poverty aqd famine for the many, and wealth and satiety for the few ; it is an orgy of robbery, a reign of bribery and violence, such ax was never know'll in the darkest hours of the Tsarist regime. .It is a mockery of ail ) that is sacred .<« men: religion, family, home, and country .

The English people a-k lor a trial ol the great criminal, the Geiman Em peror. But Wilhelm lias a brother., a greater ”i'imimil than he- -L"’>ia. AVithelm began a criminal v.ar; Lenin helped him to prolong it lor tears, helped him when Wilhelm was on th. eve of surrender. What is rhe point ol impeaching and trying Wilhelm il

Lenin is to have the iricndlv ham! of peace ? The pinner place lor both is io (lie dock. The hour which mark:, peace between the Allies and Bolshevists will not be the hour ol pence in Russia, and will not mean an end to the civil war that rages there.

The Bolshevists have had their 'lay ot semi-recognition ami timid sympathy from the Allies. We believe that this .sat] mistake has been recognized and will not be repeated. Russia gave millions of lives and all her e.oimmie resources for the struggle agaiu-t (.'ermany. Xow tiiat the war has emh'd in victory -a victory j.ir which EinoJ'e and America owe a part to Russia, she expects help ami support. Help iti restoring a great and free Russia, which can never come to life under the oppression and tyranny of Bolshov ism 1