A PEASANT TSAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17659, 21 December 1920, Page 7

A PEASANT TSAR.

WILL HE RISE IN RUSSIA?

LONDON, Nov. 13. i The correspondent of the Times at I Warsaw states that the religious and mon ! archical feeling is growing in Russia, and ha peasant Tsar, guaranteeing not to restore J landiordship, could sweep through tho | country at the head of entire peasantry. There is one man whom the Bolsheviks r-hold in deadly fear, who enjoys the universal respect and reverence of the people. He is the Patriarch Tihon. whose influence is a silent, ail-pervading, and unassailable propaganda. 'The Soviet poJicv of assisting popular education will also help to lift the scales from the eves of the masses. At the same time, the ambitious pohrv of the Soviet remains unchana-ed. This ib indicated in a speech bv Trotzkv, who stated that an effort to rrush Poland 1 would be made m the sprins. and then the banner of a European revolution would agr's'n be raised. Will China be next? This is the qucsj t:cu which has ari.-en as a resn'.V of the- ! entry of partisan troops into Manchuria ; and Mongolia. The correspondent of the j Times at Peking states that Bolshevism is ! positively knocking at the Amtr. and while j there is no reason to believe tkat China 1 will prove a fruitful ground for it? oper.: i tions, the frontier situation is causing [ concern.