BOLSHEVISM.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16714, 23 January 1919, Page 7

BOLSHEVISM.

- TENDENCIES IN BRITAIN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 7.45 p.m., Jan. 22ncL LONDON, Jan. 19. At the Workers' Union Conference the chairman, referring -i'o the deaths of Dr Liebknecht .and Rosa- Luxemburg., said: '"We feel th"'s deeply. TJie deaths of these people must be the end of Bolshevism." An Tndian speaker • announced that) the conference had decided on. a general strike of workers in the Unit/ed Kingdom unless the authorities withdrew the Allied forces from Russia. ■ Miss Sylvia Pankhursfc predicted a revolution in England -the same as in other countries. Mr dynes (Labour M.P. and exFood Controller) speaking at Oldham, warned the Government of the gravity of, situation.' Speaking of the pledge to send a Labour representative to the Peace Conference,-lie that a. breach of the Prime Minister's pledge at a moment of grave labour unrest and suspicion would increase the; people's suspicions - and breed! Bolshevism faster than it! could "be destroyed.^ Mr Gompers and four otihor American Labour delegates have ' .arrived. They intend conferring with tlie British and French LaTjaur leaders-for the purpose-:;©?- founding aj new tional organisation which will influence •the* peace terms towards improving tilie standards of life of the workers of all countai.es. ® FOUR LEADERS SHOT. >V'. • ' . ZURICH, Jan. 20.,'Four Bolshevik, leaders at Spandau were captured on Friday night." They attempted to escape when going through a forest to prison, and the guard shot all four dead. '