ARMY OF ANTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19784, 7 March 1927, Page 7

ARMY OF ANTS

SECRETLY WORKING THE SOVIET IN CHINA BRITAIN’S RIVAL FOR POWER NEW ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN FRENCH WRITER’S ADVOCACY [By Telegraph—Ptr Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received March 6, 9.15 p.m. PARIS, March 5. The British Opposition leaders’ support to Sir Austen Chamberlain’s Note to the Soviet has created a deep impression. Several newspapers declare that the crux of the question is the old AngloRussian rivalry in the Far East, which is described by one writer as “ a struggle between a whale and a elephant, but the elephant has at present become an army of ants burrowing everywhere secretly, wliile the whale 13 no longer able to summon the assistance of the Japanese dragon owing to abandoment of the Japanese alliance in order to please the United States, though the necessity for an Anglo-Japanese alliance is becoming daily more plain.” The Press does not expect that Britain -will break off relations with Russia till other European powers are prepared to follow her example. The impudent tone of the Soviet’s reply is considered to be due to the Bolshevik leaders ’ desires to distract attention from the unsatisfactory economic position of Russia. “Pertinax” hi an article in tire “Echo de Paris,” points out that Japanese ports are only 48 hours from Shanghai, and adds that if, as formerly, British and Japanese po tries had been united, the scene at Hankow would never have occurred. ALIEN PROPAGANDA CLASS HATRED IN BRITAIN PRIME MINISTER ON LABOUR’S ATTITUDE Received March 6, 5.5 p.m. Sun Cable) LONDON, March 5. Mr Stanley Baldwin, speaking at Cambridge, emphasised the danger of alien propaganda based on class hatred growing up in England, principally from Russia. Labourites, he said, had done their own people a disservice by failing to explain, when Bolshevism first obtained power in Russia, what it really was, and permitting their followers to believe that Bolshevism had been a Labour triumph comparable with what might happen in Britain if Labour gained power. PACT WITH LATVIA SOVIET’S NEW MOVE BLOW AIMED AT LEAGUE OF NATIONS Received March 6, 9.45 p.m. LONDON, March 6. It is learned that the Soviet is hastening the conclusion of a non-aggres-sion Latvian pact on Latvia’s own terms, aiming to strengthen Russo-Lat-vian relations and correspondingly enfeebling Latvia’s connection with the League of Nations.