BOLSHEVISM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 18, 23 January 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM

PLANS FOR A GREAT CONQUEST AN ARMY. OF MILLIONS. TO OVERWHELM WESTERN EUROPE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Roc. Jan, 23, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON 1 , Jan. 20'. The Daily Chronicle’s Geneva correspondent states that the Swiss Professor Phillippe Jeannere has arrived from Russia. Ho was a traveller, from Kasan to Moscow with Bolehevijc staff officers, who were mainly Letts. Ho expressed surprise at seeing trains full of soldiers, guns, aeroplanes, and ammunition, The officers replied that the Bolshevik Government had great plans for a revolutionary conquest, and was raising an immense army, to carry out the plans. They added: “We,have a-mil-lion men to-day, and will double our strength in, six months’ time. The Hungarians will soon join us, for Hungary is ripe for a proletarian revolution. Then the red flag will be carried into Austria, As soon as we cross the German frontier the greater part of Germany, and certainly Prussia, ■ will rally to the Bolsheviks in order.to escape, the crushing peace terms. . We shall then have millions of trained German, soldiers at our disposal, ~ There is no difficulty in organising an army of Jive million with which to overwhelm Western Europe. We have plenty of money* and. are confident we can realise our aims owing; to the disorganisation 'and confusion prevailing in Europe.” .. Jeannere admits .that the officials were boasting, and intended to impress him, hut the military preparations he witnessed bore out >many of their statements., - . ■

Jeannere expresses the opinion-that the Allies should' occupy Livonia if they wish to strike a mortal, blow ■ at Bolshevism, for most of their strength is drawn' from there. The Letts practised horrible cruelties at Kasan, including the imprisonment of 2SO men, women, and children in a cellar, where they were left to starve.