PARIS’S PERIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 29 November 1927, Page 8

PARIS’S PERIL.

COMMUNIST MENACE.

LONDON, Nov. 13,

The problem of Communism in France is attracting wide attention, says the Paris correspondent of tho Times. An article in the Revue des Deux Mondes urges co-ordination in international opposition to Communism, and asks what is the use of expelling Arcos from London when its agents are established over the way at Boulogne and Amsterdam. The writer does not believe that a revolution in Paris is impossible. Communism is widely permeating the unorganised workers, he says. The police are reliable, but they are insufficient and too immobile. It is doubtful, furthermore, whether the garrisons of the Paris municipalities are reliable, because they would be without orders, and, besides, tlie French troops have a marked dislike to marching against the people. There is no plan for meeting a Bolshevik rising in France, he declares, and a definite scheme should be prepared, since tho discontent underlying Bolshevism cannot be cured by the bayonet. The Riga correspondent of the Times says that the Soviet has presented a note demanding satisfaction for the “unfriendly act” of Archbishop John, head of the Orthodox Church in Latvia, by holding a memorial service in Riga Cathedral for the victims of the Bolshevik revolution.