SOVIET PLOT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 December 1927, Page 5

SOVIET PLOT

TO BOLSHEVISE ASIA inactivities IN DUTCH • INDIESf^'f. ’ 4 A RESOLUTE. ATTACK /' ‘‘J .. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & NZ. Cable • Association LONDON, 30th November. Sir Percival Phillips, in an article" irC';.the “Daily Mail,” declares that .the Soviet’s conspiracy to Bolshevism Asia irix,", eludes a resolute attack on the security ” of the Dutch Indies. The surrender, of r Java and Sumatra to Bolshevism would-- ( tremendously affect the eastern mind ana!.'.„ supply an important strategic base lor. a campaign against the British Empire*7 After reviewing the operations "of the,' ** Dutch Communist Sneevliet and the native Communist Samoaen, which resulted in strikes and armed outbreaksin 1926 and 1927, later ending with.."',;, three executions and many imprison- - ments and deportations, Sir. Percival. Phillips discloses that Daciilan, a native medical student and Samoaen’s snccesV, ’ sor,.. described a plan for seizing Batavfa, establishing a reign of terror, ahdi..',killing officials. Tlie recent rising inBandoeng was farcically futile. Secrecy' is now superseding open tactics, whichfailed owing to the unexpected • energy of. the Dutch authorities.' -Bolsheviks are . exploiting • propagandist avenue's ,m- ' Holland, Mecca, and China. . Some suecess was achieved in Javans and more in Sourabaya. The Indonesian National,'-. . Party has been formed in Bandoeng in n order to throw off Dutch rule v A him', dred body is, a league to combat im-. . perialism. This has '-headquarters' "ifl Paris. Commoner Fenner. Brookway is a member of this league and has, beer, appointed to a deputation to to inquire into alleged Dutch i - persecu-. tions of natives. Commoner Mardy £ Jones is a member. The Mecca actiyi-> ties led Ibn Sa.ird to deport, a' number;, t of Dutch Indisn Communists. - ;■ *