THE SPREAD OF BOLSHEVISM.

Otago Witness, Issue 3396, 16 April 1919, Page 23

THE SPREAD OF BOLSHEVISM.

(By Cable.)

NEW YORK, March 50. The Evening Sun's Paris correspondent reports that the French are already mobilising elements in Old Salonika in order to conduct a military campaign against the Bolshevists along the eastern barriei*. Americans and British oppose the plan, because they believe it 'will fail.

LONDON, April 6. Interviewed by a. United Press representative, Mr Cecil Harmsworth, UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, said : The Allied Governments .cannot recognise the Bolshevists, for the following reasons :—■ The Bolshevists do not represent the Russian people; the Bolshevists have shown themselves enemies of the League of Nations; they made peace with Germany against the will of their poeple. . The Allie 3 will support the Governments of Generals Tsaikovski, Kolchak, and Deniken, because they stand for the restoration of Russia and the maintenance of an alii* ance with the" Allies.'

April 11. The spread of Bolshevism in Central, South-eastern, and Eastern Germany threatens Switzerland with a great invasion of refugees. Terror-stricken inhabitants of Austria-Hungary and Bavaria' are clamouring to cross the border. Austrian aristocrats have appealed, for permission to hasten to Switzerland without passports in the event of peril from Bolshevism. Count Czernin has appealed for protection, having learned that the Com* munists have condemned him to death.

WASHINGTON, April 8. The War Department is arranging to despatch an educational mission to Europe to combat Bolshevist ideas in the Ameri* can army.

LONDON, April 8. The police have arrested 150 Russian Bolshevists in London, mostly in the East End including many criminals. All will be deported to Odessa by the earliest ships. It is intended to sweep London and the provincial centres.

BERNE, April 8. Rumanian refugees state that Bulgaria! is on the brink of Bolshevism, and ready to declare a Soviet republic Rumania is alarmed, and is mobilising additional divisions. The population is dismayed at the Allies' dilatoriness to face the. menace to European civilisation. The" Hungarians are exploiting the situation, and their aeroplanes are showering Bolshevist leaflets on the Rumanian army camps, urging them to assist the Russian and Hungarian Soviets. BRISBANE,-April 9. Two men who carried a red flag in a recent demonstration were sentenced t» six months' imprisonment.