DEALING WITH BOLSHEVISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17534, 28 January 1919, Page 5

DEALING WITH BOLSHEVISM

AN AMBIGUOUS SITUATION.

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST

INTERVENTION.

LONDON, January 24. The Evening Standard's Paris correspondent states: There is an understanding at the Peace Conference that if the Bolshevists take.up a defiant attitude towards the Allies armed intervention will be considered. The Allies must give active military aid to Poland if the Bolshevists advanee._ Marshal Foch has gone to Poland in order to prepare for any contingency. If the Russian is arranged the signing of peace should come in May, although there is some scepticism, T3ie newspapers are generally hopeful of good results from the conference regarding their Russian decision.

On the other hand, the Morning Post bitterly attacks the proposals. The Daily Telegraph says: Every questionable step places the whole conference in the ambiguous position of initiating overtures with the Bolshevists. This proposal is hazardous, because it gives small chances of usefulness, violates our ethical standards, and because it seems to exonerate the guilty. The Daily News says: The French doctrine that it is the duty of a United Europe to stamp out Bolshevism is precisely the argument used by the opponents to the French Revolution. If force is used in Russia it will mean the ruin of the hopes of the League of Nations.—A. and N.Z. Cable. «

CANADIAN PREMIER AS DELEGATE. PARIS, January 25. Sir Robert Borden, Canadian Prime Minister, who has been asked to serve on the Bolshevist Commission, is proceeding to Prince's Island, in the Sea' of Marmora, General Botha is a member of the Commission to Poland.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE MESSAGE TO RUSSIA. A WARNING. LONDON, January 25. A message has been sent out by wireless all over the world by the Powers at the Peace Conference. It intimates that the conference is deeply disturbed to hear of instances of armed force being used in many parts of Europe and the East to gain possession of territory. The message adds: Those using force will create the presumption that they doubt the justice and validity of their claims, and also indicate their distrust of. the conference. If they expect justice, they must Tefrain from force and must place their claims in the hands of the conference."—A. and - N Z Cable.

BOLSHEVISM AND ATHEISM.

"THE RED DEVIL."

LONDON, January 23. Mr Jeffries states that refugees from Petrograd say that the Bolshevists are conducting an atheistical campaign Fifty churches have been closed, and the churchgoers are being heavily taxed. All reli gious teaching is prohibited. An antirehgioiis newspaper has been established entitled the Red Devil.—A. and N Z Cable.

THE RUSSIAN RESOLUTION.

WHY IT WAS ADOPTED

«.,>.,„ LONDON, January 24. Ine Daily Express Paris correspondent says: President Wilson evidently drafted the Peace Conference's Russian resolution, but it is really a great personal triumph for Mr Lloyd George, inasmuch as it was the principal British suggestion m December which M. Pichon (French Fo l?ign Minister) categorically declined lhe Peace Conference has taken the British view—namely, that although the Soviet is not the sort of Government the Allies approve, nevertheless, after 15 months, its existence must be admitted — A. and N.Z. Cable.

DESTROYERS FOR LD3AU .COPENHAGEN, January 24. > The British cruiser Royalist and three Jz fbl f ° r nbau -- A - and

BOLSHEVISTS DECLINE INVTTA TION.

LONDON, January 26 The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent states that) the, Bolshevists have retused the invitation to-a conference—A and N.Z. Cable. ; "

FATE OF THE ROMANOFFS.

ANOTHER RUMOUR.

EX-CZARINA AND FAMILY ALIVE.

. LONDON, January 24 (Received Jan. 27, at 7.25 p m ) The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Copenhagen interviewed an official of the ex-Czar's Court who escaped from Russia He that the ex-Czarina and her children are safe, living in retirement in Russia. It is untrue that the ex-Czar is alive The Dowager Empress and other royalties took refuge in the Crimea —A and N.Z. Cable. ' THE BALTIC PROVINCES. BOLSHEVIST REVERSES. MURDERS IN COURLAND. STOCKHOLM, January 24 (Received Jan. 27, at 7.25 p m ) • ' According to telegrams from Ljbau the Bolshevists are nearly out of Esthonia and Northern Livonia. It is re ported that Trotsky has been taken prisoner and valuable booty secured The Bolshevists at Riga are now threatened from the rear. _ Recent Bolshevist outrages in Courland include the murders of several cler<nrmen and leaders of • the Social Democrats in ft lef town of Courland.-A and N.Z. Cable.

OBJECTION TO CONFERENCE PROPOSALS.

BASED ON MISAPPREHENSION. RECOGNITION OF GOVERNMENT NOT INTENDED. . PARIS, January 26. (Received Jan, i>B, at 0.25 a.m ) M. Pichon states that no official reply has yet been received from the Bolshevist Government, though unofficial reports record a somewhat reluctant acceptance of the conference's proposal. The Bolshevists stress the difficulty of their delegates reaching the Sea of Marmora. M. Pichon questioned on the opposition to the Russian proposals by the French press, said he thought it -was based on the assumption that the arrangement meant recognition of the Bolshevist Government. That was incorrect. There ;was no intention of recognising the Government. It was merely hoped that the conference would lead to a cessation of internecine strife and permit of the stabilisation of Russia —A. and N.Z. Cable.