SOVIET INTRIGUE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19532, 15 July 1925, Page 7

SOVIET INTRIGUE

RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN. i [ WARNING TO M. RAKOVSKY Press Asoociatitm— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 13. (Received July 14, at 9 p.m.) ' Mr Austen Chamberlain received M. Rakovsky yesterday and assured him that an immediate break, in Anglo-Soviet relations was not contemplated. The Daily Telegrapn's diplomatic correspondent says, however, that Mr Chamberlain's remarks left M. Rakovsky no illusions regarding the gravity of British opinion in respect to the anti-British propaganda now being carried on by Soviet agents in Asia, particularly in China. Hungary is the latest victim of Bolshevist hate, owing to Hungary's refusal to ratify a commercial agreement, which the Soviet foolishly attributes to British pressure. — A. and N.Z. Cable. At the All-Russian Communist party conference at Moscow in April last M. Zinovieff, .reporting on the activities of the Communist International, emphasised ■ that the revolutionary movement in Europe was only apparently weakening, and declared that the Russian Communist party must overcome the difficulties by employing more energetic methods. Eight years of expedience had not only shown that tho moment for world revolution had become more remote, but, owing to the altered political grouping, the route of the revolutionary movement in the near future would be through England, the Far East, tive Balkans, and South-Eastern Europe, but especially England, where growing revolutionary tendencies were assuming the • form of a national liberating movement. It was, M. Zinovieff asserted, a clever move on the part of the Russian trade delegates to yield liberally on many points ' to the British trade unionists at the Lon- | doi\" conference, but only pressure on the •; part of the masses could give duration j to an agreement with elements belonging to the Amsterdam International,. M. Zinovieff protested against the depression existi ing in the party, and criticised its apathy towards world revolution, interest in ' which, he said, must not be replaced by i questions of a purely national character.