RED RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1704, 18 December 1919, Page 6

RED RUSSIA.

BACKBONE iV BOLSHEVIKS. “JEWB EXAOXIKG,REVENGE.” FREMANTLE, Nov 28.. Captain 0. U; Turner, R.N.V., jvhs lias just, returned from' Liberia, xvhero he• octtd L intelligence officer and w-is British .Mission, said to-day W J, now no such thing as law and older RU Umnan Hfo was tho cheapest of commodities, wldlo food and clothing wero the dearest of all. Factories had boon closed down and primary production was almost at a standstill. Tho greatest enemies of the Bolsheviks wore the working cassob, but terror and starvation compelled them to servo their inhuman masters. Tho Russian situation had laigd.y i ( solved itself into a religious war, .tho backbone of tho Bolshevik movement being Jews who were taking the opportunity tc exact revenge for the atrocities permittee on them in the past Lenin and Tiotekj were botli Jews, and Jews had the organisation. the brains, tho money and the fore* at their disposal to enable them to impost their will on the uneducated mass of Rus sian peasantry. Tho Red Army was almost entirely ofli cored by Germans, and contained many Gor man mercenaries. Persons suspected of op position to the Bolshevik regime were tor tured or massacred daily, often with Bombs, ferocity. Tho work of torture and exocn tion was usually entrusted to Chinese mm conaries. who wore made drunk with vodk before being turned loose upon tl/mr vu tims. , “]f the Australian people really iindoi stood the Russian situation,” Captain lin nor concluded. “50 per cent, would volmitei to go and fight tho Bolsheviks.”