MISCHIEF IN THE FAST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17700, 8 February 1921, Page 5

MISCHIEF IN THE FAST.

ACTIVE BED PROPAGANDA. BUILDING BRIDGE TO INDIA. MOSCOW'S DOUBLE DEALING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 11.30 p.m.) A- and N.Z. LONDON, Feb. 6. The Russian Soviet- Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Tchitcherin, replying to Lord Curzon, denies the existence of Bolshevik intrigues in the Middle East. On the other hand he charges the Allies with aiding anti-Bolsheviks there as elsewhere but suggests that a full discussion is the best means to remove misunderstandings. The Daily Herald, the British Labour newspaper, states that apart from minor details, the Russian Soviet Government is prepared to sign the trade agreement on condition that Britain agrees to respect the independence of Persia, Afghanistan and Asia Minor and to abstain from hostile acts in countries bordering on Soviet Russia. In direct conflict with Tehitcherin's disj flaic.er is a report on Bolshevik propa- | aanda in Asia, particularly India, pre- ; sented by a Russian Soviet commissary !to a Bolshevik conference at Bremen. The ! report is permeated with hatred of Eng- ; land. English soldiers at Baku are deas " impudent mercenaries," and , the commissary looks to the hour when J Bolshevism will dispose of them. The report continues:—"John Bull al- ■ ready shows that his teeth are powerless. I In a tight bridle we will overthrow him jin India. It is expected that the Moham- ! medans in Turkestan will adopt Socialism, i and in that case they will play the part lof a bridge to India. Our network of agi- j j tation will gradually spread. To-day it i stretches to Afghanistan and thence to | North India. At a conference held in February last year at Samarkand there I were delegates not only from Afghanistan, the Pamirs, and Malaya, but from inner India and Ceylon. As a result of the conference we established an active liaison with the whole of India and Southern Persia, which facilitates direct intercourse with Turkey. Arabia, and Egypt. "That conference served as the foundation of a League of Eastern Liberation that controls Turkestan and is sending emissaries to Mongolia, Mohammedan China, and the Punjab. In Samarkand 'we have the test school for training prc- . pagandists, and in the last nine j months of the year it turned j out 3500 instructors, including 930 Hindus, 460 Tajiks, and 1300 Sarts and Afghans. The chief attention is paid | to the Indian races, and only full converts j are sent to India. Most valuable classes I at Delhi and Benares are working splenI didly under the eyes of Englishmen. At ; Delhi we founded six or seven schools last | year, and by November they had 1900 ' active subscribing members, and regular monthly subscriptions are made." AGITATION IN INDIA. DELHI BOYCOTT PLANNED. (Received 5.30 p.m.) ijfeuter. DECHL Feb. 6. The extremists are arranging for a complete boycott of the Duke of Connaught s visit to Delhi on Wednesday, when he is to inaugurate the new Council of State. It is intended to make Delhi a city of mourning. The people are asked to demain indoors, to close their houses, and suspend traffic. • A serious riot occurred in the Naihati mill district, in Bengal, over a trivial incident, the upsetting of a tray of Bweetme&ts. The jute workers attacked a guard of Gurkas with knives. Two Gurkas were killed and many injured. TURKEY'S DICTATOR. TERMS OFFERED TO SULTAN. ! (Received 11.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 6. i The Turkish Nationalist leader, Mus- | tapha Kemal, has announced the terms ' on which he is prepared to recognise the ! Sultan's authority. The Sultan, he de- ■ mands, must publish a decree recognis--1 ing the Nationalist Parliament at Angora. ! the latter guaranteeing to protect Constantinople and to provide a, civil list for | the» Imperial famiiy and officials. I PERSIA'S PARLIAMENT. MEMBERS DECLINE TO ATTEND (Received 12.5 a.m.) Renter. DELHI, Feb. 6There have been moTe complications at i Teheran. Fifteen deputies refused to ■ jittend the Mejiles (Persian National Conn- ' til), and its opening has-been delayed | three weeks pending the arrival from the j provinces of other representatives suffij cient to form a quorum. SOVIET IN SIBERIA. ANTI-JAPANESE ACTIVITY. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 6. According to a message from Moscow, the Soviet newspaper Isvestia states that the special tribunal set up by the Soviet Government at Tomsk found the entire Revolutionary Committee of Siberia guilty j of carrying on treacherous negotiations ■ with Japan. Six of the committee were shot and the others were sentenced to i imprisonment for life. The Soviet is j arranging for an agreement with the East i Siberian Government at Chita against j Japan.