A NEST OF ANARCHY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11931, 29 October 1919, Page 2

A NEST OF ANARCHY.

OFFENSIVE AGAINST EUROPE. ~ l " ACTIVITIES IN THE ORIENT. A significant event, foreshadowing a new offensive of certain of the vanquishes! against the victors of the war, has recently taken place in Switzerland. Under the name of “Oriental League’,’ there has been established at Berne a central organisation uniting all the various sacret societiesof Moslem and Hindu Nationalists in Europe, which hitherto acted independently. The aim of the new association is to prepare joint revolutionary action in Asia and Africa after the definite conclusion of peace. Reliable information enables me to give a full account of this vast conspiracy, the effects of which might already be traced in recent events in Egypt, India and Afghanistan. For the first time, through the creation of the “League,” the racial and religious differences which, until now, divided all Eastern conspirators, have been overcome. The “Ottoman League, ” founded previously in Switzerland by Mahmud Muktar Pasha, Munir Pasha, and Ahmed Rechid Bey I (who refused to adopt the revoiuj tionary methods of the younger j members, and were consequently soon forced to resign; had adhered to the new organisation. So have the extreme Egyptian Nationalists and the Hindu revolutionary group “Pro India,” emissaries of which were recently sentenced in Zurich for bringing bombs into Switzerland during the war, at the instigation of the German General Staff. - At the “constituent assembly” of the “League,” which took place in May, there were present, besides I Young Turks, Egyptians and Hin - dus, delegates “representing” Persia, Afghanistan, Algiers and Morocco. “MADE IN GERMANY.” The “League” is, of conrae, of German origin. Its leading spirit is a certain Baron von Wesendonck, formerly director of the Berlin Foreign Office's “Oriental Department,” created in tne early days of the war to foment insurrections and plots in British and French colonies, with the aid £of native agitators. This “Oriental Department” was divided into sections for British India, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Persia, Tnrco-Tartary, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco. In January last Baron von Wesendonck, accompanied by his chief native agents, emigrated to Switzerland. Thus the “Oriental' League”*is in reality a reincarnation of the Wilhelmstrasse’s “Oriental Department,” which gave signs of life recently by staging a ‘ ‘congress of oppressed nationalities” in Berlin some days before the signing of the armistice. Considerable funds are at the disposal of the ‘ ‘League. ’ ’ These are still partly supplied -from Germany. Besides enjoying the support of Germans, the “League” is also in close touch with Lenin, who very soon after his advent to power organised an “Oriental Department” in Moscow. The alliance between the “League” and the Russian Bolshevists was brought about by the notorious German Socialist agent “Parvus,” now in Switzerland. WAITING DEMOBILISATION, Evidence exists that the recent insurrection in Egypt, the sudden attack of the Afghans, and the rising in India —remarkable for the cooperation between Moslems and Hindus—were connected with' the activities of the “League.” These events, however, are regarded only as a “rehearsal”; for the conspirators, in accordance with directions from Moscow and Berlin, have postponed decisive revolutionary action until peace conditions are folly re-established. They argue that their time will come when general demobilisation has been carried out. In the meantime, anti-British propaganda in French, German and English denouncing British,rule in India and Egypt, and proclaiming the right to self-determination of every Eastern race that ever existed, is scattered broadcast by the “League” to influence and confuse neutral and even Allied opinion. In all these pamphlets and leaflets the same grotesque use is made of socialistic phraseology ;as in the speeches and declarations of so many of the new leaders in Germany. All this Eastern Nationalist movement, whose aims and methods are concentrated at present in she activities of the “Oriental ’League” in Switzerland, is part of Gorman militarism s coming manoeuvre to elude the fulfilment of the peace terms, and of the Bolshevist plans of world conquest.