SOVIET MENACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 303, 18 November 1930, Page 7

SOVIET MENACE.

MAKING MASSES “WAR READY.” (Times Cables.) LONDON, Nov. 17. While M. Litvinoff was discussing disarmament at Geneva, the Soviet had begun a monster agitation, lasting ten clays, to make the masses “war ready-,” especial attention being directed to the necessity for military, naval, aviation, and gas warfare, in view of ever-growing danger of attack by the capitalist enemy. So says the Riga correspondent of the London Times. Agitators, he proceeds, are encouraging workers to contribute overtime payments toward strengthening the Red Army, and especially in building aircraft. All the newspapers publish an article by Maxim Gorky—it was written in his luxurious villa at Sorrento —exhorting the workers to arm to enable the Soviet to deal a crushing blow to its enemies. Ho declares: “The Soviet civil war has not ended. Engineers specialists, and professors are still active against the revolution.” This so-called plot and alleged Franco-Britisli preparations for an invasion of Russia are being given great prominence in the newspapers; which are virtually singing: “lie don’t want to fight, but, by jingo, if wo do!” Wireless, war films, war plays, and red hot oratory are all being employed to support the movement. METHODS CONDEMNED. MUST STAMP OUT COMMON ENEMY. (Times Cables.) LONDON, Nov. 17. The Times’s Berlin correspondent states-. “Sir William Horwood was one of the principal speakers at a gigantic anti-Bolshevik demonstration organised by the German League for the Defence of Western Culture, supported by prominent leaders of all religions. . “The Russian Orthodox Bishop Seraphin described his experiences under the Soviet religious persecution, after which Communists in the audience, having indulged in repeated interruptions, came to blows with opponents and police were called in. The Communists, using various weapons, attacked the police and finally twentythree were arrested, several of whom were injured. . “Sir William Horwood emphasised that the Soviet was aiming to use slave labour to export grain and manufactures and so obtain money for the propagation of its doctrines throughout the world. All nations and creeds must combine to stamp out the enemy. This righteous fight against a common enemy would build a lasting monument of friendship between England and Germany, which after the ordeal of war had manv mutual interests.”