PLOTS BY BOLSHEVIKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19808, 1 December 1927, Page 11

PLOTS BY BOLSHEVIKS.

CONSPIKACY IN ASIA. BASE AGAINST EMPIRE. JAVANESE REVOLT INCITED. WORLD-WIDE ACTIVITIES. BRITISH PAPER'S EXPOSURE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received November 30, 8.15 p.m.) Sun. LONDON. Nov 30 Writing in the Daily Mail, the wellknown war correspondent, Sir Percival Phillips, who has been in China for some time, says" the conspiracy by the Soviet to Bolshevise Asia includes a resolute attack on the security of tbe Dutch East Indies. The surrender of Java and Sumatra to Bolshevism would, ho says, tremendously affect the Eastern mind, and would supply an important strategic base for the campaign against the Empire. After reviewing the operations of the Dutch Communist, Sneeviiet, and a native Communist, Sameozn, which resulted in strikes and armifd outbreaks in 1.926 and 1927, the latter ending with three executions and many imprisonments and deportations, Sir Percival discloses that Dachlan, a native medical student, and Sameozn's successor, prepared a plan for seizing Batavia and establishing a reign of terror and killing the Dutch officials. The recent rising in Bandoeng was farcically futile, but secrecy is now superseding the open tactics, which failed owing to the unexpected energy of the Dutch authorities. The Bolsheviks are exploiting propagandist avenues in Holland, Mecca and China. Some success has been achieved in Java, and more in Sourabaya. The Indonesian National Party has been formed in Bandoeng, in order to throw off the Dutch rule. A kindred body is the League to Combat Imperialism. This has its headquarters in Paris. The Political Secretary of the Independent Labour Party, Mr. A. Fen ner Brockway, is a member of this league, and he was appointed one of a deputation to vjsit Java to inquire into the alleged Dutch persecutions of natives. Mr. T. I. Mardy Jones, a Labour member of the House of Commons, is also a member. The activities of the Soviet in Mecca led Ibn Saud, the King of the Hedjaz, to deport numbers of Dutch Indian Communists.

The Communist risings in the Dutch East Indies commenced on November 12, 1926, by attacks on police barracks, which were repulsed. Railways were cut in many places, and a. Dutch railway superintendent, native chiefs and police were murdered. The Government rapidly got matters in hand, captured about 200 rebels, including many of the murderers, and put an end to the revolt in West Java. Communist propaganda disseminated by Chinese and Javanese agents was alleged to be responsible for the revolt, and the rebels wore Bolshevik insignia. After the crushing of the first outburst, the Comintern (Communist International, Moscow), issued an appeal to "all the oppressed workers of the world' to hold mass meetings and to demonstrate against "Imperial terrorism" in the Indian Archi pelago, and to demand the immediate evacuation of the Dutch troops and the restoration of Indo Asian independence At the erid of December, 1926, a resurg ence of the revolt occurred iri Western Sumatra, in which Dutch officers and natives were butchered. Troops weie brought and heavy fighting occurred, in which 50 of the Communists were killed and many prisoners taken.