BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15447, 16 February 1921, Page 3

BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA.

DEPARTMENT ORGANISED ON MILITARY LINES. PARIS, Feb. 14. Investigations by the French police revealed details of an organisation for (lie purpose of infecting France, England, and other countries with Bolshevik ( doctrines. A.secret headquarters was first established at Stockholm and Copenhagen under Litvinoff, but the British secret service discoveries in connection with the Daily Herald jewels compelled the closing of the Stockholm and Copenhagen offices. They are now traced to Bremen, whore secret agents arc coming into Western Europe through Esthonia. Detectives have secured photos of many confidential documents. The Bolshevik propagandra department is 'organised on military lines, each country being under a special director, who is responsible for all secret agents. The directors work under,false names, and do not roside permanently in the country,, but movo about, leaving detailed work to the resident lieutenants. None of the subordinate agents know of the existence of the Bremen headquarters, believing they receive their orders direct from Moscow. The last general meeting of the directors at Bremen took place in December. Shorthand notes show that the Bolshevists have no great hope of success in France or Britain, but, regard the prospects in Germany, Italy, and Central bJuropo as promising. ' The detectives also secured a list of (he Bolshevik agents in different countries and the sums of.money paid them. There are six hundred direct agents from Russia working in Europe, apart from native propagandists.—A. and N.Z.C.A. NORWAY PROHIBITS BOLSHEVIK LITERATURE. # CHRISTIANS, Jan. 1.-To stop the circulation of Russian Bolshevist propaganda _ the Norwegian Government has prohibited the importation of literature from Russia, no matter in what language it is printed. The only exception is strictly scientific non-political literature. It has been charged here that for some timo the Norwegian Socialistic headquarters have been the centre for the distribution to other countries of Russian Soviet propaganda literature, which is imported from Northern Russia by way of Northern Norwegian towns. This literature is printed in Moscow in different European languages, and preaches *civil war and revolution. It is re-exported by .Norwegian agencies, and through different channels it is smuggled into other countries. This action has caused unfriendly feelings toward Norway, and in some instances Norwegian vessels and crews have encountered trouble in foreign ports.