“ADVICE FROM MOSCOW.”

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 221, 16 August 1927, Page 11

“ADVICE FROM MOSCOW.”

“At the risk of exposing himself to being denounced as an agent of the Third International, this writer would offer a bit of helpful advice to the Foreign Office officials at Moscow,” says a New York Times columnist. That institution, in perfectly understandable.indignation over the murder of the Soviet Minister at Warsaw, lias issued a lengthy document embodying a long list of crimes against the Soviet republics chargeable to the British Empire. It would appear that George V. and Winston Churchill have either directly instigated, or indirectly encouraged, or benevolently smiled upon plots to assassinate most of the chief men of the Soviet Republic; corrupted the Russian Boy Scouts; tried to blow up the headquarters of the Cheka; hurled a bomb into a Communist meeting at Leningrad; induced Chang Tsolin to raid the Russian Embassy at Peking; persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to make short work of the Communists at Shanghai. Only lack of time or space probably deterred the Moscow Foreign Office from holding the British Empire responsible for the debilitating climate of Mexico City, as a result of which the Soviet Ambassador, Mme. Kollontay, has been compelled to leave her post of duty; for the failure of rain in Siberia, which has compelled the Ostyak and Chukchi tribesmen to slaughter their reindeer in propitiation of the rain gods; and for tho attitude of the New York police to the Left Wing fur strikers on i Twenty-sixth Street.