A BOLSHEVIK NEWSPAPER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3384, 22 January 1919, Page 59

A BOLSHEVIK NEWSPAPER.

THE RED ARMY OF MOSCOW. " From a Battlefield prisoner we have just taken a copy of the October 10 issue of the Red Army, a Bolshevik Moscow daily paper," writes Arthur E. Copping from Archangel. "It leads off in display lines of optimistic sensationalism, including the poor rising against the rich; Siberia ablaze with fiery rebellion; arising against each other are" two enemies, work and capital, poor and bourgeois; in Germany the revolution has started and soldiers are going against their officers, waving red flags and singing revolutionary songs. . ' American People Cheated.— " In the first article it is said > ' When all Russia was under the despotism of

the Romanoff family, -wo looked enviously? to the Republican Powers. We dreameai of the freedom of France, Switzerland, and America as something we could never attain. Now we know the weakness of all bourgeois republics, we know the word " Democracy " is associated with the -word "Republic" only to cheat the people. la free America so-called, gross exploitation of work produces millionaires and steel kings.'

. "An account of the meeting of the Moscow soviet on October 8 begins :i '' We are feverishly awaiting the eve o 4 the Western European revolution.'

" Then there is an exchange of com* pliments between a distinguished visitoif and the Commissioner Zenovieff at J?etro* grad, who said the educated masses in that city realised it was all rot about the Bolsheviks being like wild animals. *Thouii sands at a meeting he addressed passed ai resolution to uphold the October revoluV tion and grasp the outstretched hand of the proletariat. He had opened ft peasants' university at Petrograd which'' it Avas hoped thousands would join, bui ha' had got only 400. "Bourgeoise Set to Work.— " Reverting to the question of the boury geois, he said Petrograd had -wrestled' with it more energetically than Moscow 1 . He added: ' You may have seen dozens laying wood blocks in the Smolni courtyards, also unloading coal barges, cleaning out barracks—at least doing mord I physical work than ever before.' Some, he added, had seht a numerously-signed address to the soviet expressing gratw tude that they had been allowed to havdLthe same ration cards as the workings, classes. < Zenovieff said he was taking sable shoes and other warm clo'ihing from the educated classes and giving them tc* the Red Army. &~'.

"' True,' he said, 'it will make the soldiers rather dazzling, but they will have to rise to the occasion.'

• "Incidentally he said: 'The bourgeois under the Bolshevik Government have disappeared. If we continue as we ara doing we will teach all the Russian! bourgeois; after that the bourgeois of all the world.'

'■ — Governments Crumbling.— " Then came a speech by Lovaxish Bucharin, who was about to depart withl fraternal greetings for Vienna. So thought the governments all ; over the* world were bursting crumbling, and said: 'We have to be sure of-our knowledge with the Western European proletariat in the Western European move-* ment. They have no leader or system or determined policy. In this we must nelpi them.' x -

" The article concludes with the cheery ful tail lines : 'No quarter for the enemy V death and. damnation to traitors.' "