BOLSHEVIK EFFORTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10271, 5 May 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK EFFORTS

PROPAGANDA xn gn GLAND, FRANCE. anD ITALI.

Australian and N.Z. Gable Association, lAIN DUN, April 30.

The “Daily Chronicle's” Berlin correspondent ‘states mat -there is convincing evidence mat influential people ..c ready to compromise with the c„,amunists to oavu tueir own sxms. Otheis are eager to grasp -mo Bolshevist torch, with u view to inrowing it into the Entente countries. It is frequently alleged thao Brockdonr-Rautzau and otners are wedded to the idea tnat is a good ally against the Western Rowersi. The correspondent pus a question to Rantzau on this point, but received no reply. Well-known financial magnates 1 are provided between a million and a-quar-tor and a million and a-half scci mg lor the purposes of Bolshevism and propaganda in England, France, and Italy, and agents are travelling with .urged , e nch, Belgian, and Czech, -passports. Many prominent men are already currying favour with the Bolshevist element, with a view to self-protection. A member of the Stinnes family of coal magnatees offered to compromise with the communists by agreeing to surrender the mines, provided the family is not ruined.

PLOT FOR REVOLUTION IN VIENNA AND PARIS.

COPENHAGEN, April 30

An unknown Russian has been arrestnd while attempting to cash a cheque for a large amount at a Vienna bank. The prisoner waes in possession ot several millions of roubles and a largo amount of Austrian money. He also had complete plans for the prgtuiisation of a Bolshevik revolution in Vienna and Paris.