VAST BOLSHEVIK PLAN FOR CONVERTING ASIA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20012, 1 December 1927, Page 7

VAST BOLSHEVIK PLAN FOR CONVERTING ASIA

INTRIGUE IN JAVA AND SUMATRA AIMED TO OVERTHROW DUTCH RULE ACTIVE MEASURES FAILING, PLOTTERS EMBARK ON SECRET CAMPAIGN (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received Nov. 30, 8.5 p.m.) (Sun Cable) LONDON, Nov. 30. Sir Percival Phillips, in an article in the Daily Mail, declares that the Soviet’s conspiracy to Bolshevise Asia includes a resolute attack on the security of the Dutch Indies. The surrender of Java and Sumatra to Bolshevism would tremendously affect the Eastern mind, he says, and would supply an important strategic base for a campaign against the Empire. After reviewing the operations of the Dutch Communist Sneevliet and the native Communist Samaoen, which resulted in the strikes and armed outbreaks of 1926-27, the latter ending with three executions and many imprisonments and deportations, Sir Percival Phillips discloses that Dachlan, a native medical student and Samaoen’s successor, described a plan for seizing Batavia, establishing a reign of terror and killing officials. The recent rising in Bandoeng was farcically futile, and secrecy is now superseding open tactics, which failed owing to the unexpected energy of the Dutch authorities. The Bolsheviks are exploiting propagandist avenues in Holland, Mecca and China. Some successes have been achieved in Java, and more in Sourabaya. The Indonesian National Party has been formed in Bandoeng in order to throw off the Dutch rule, and a kindred body is the League to Combat Imperialism. This has headquarters in Paris. Mr Fenner Brockway, the English ALP., is a member of this League, and has been appointed to a deputation to visit Java and inquire into alleged Dutch persecution of the natives. Mr Mardy-Jones, M.P., is a member, and his Mecca activities led Ibn Saud to deport numbers of Dutch Indian Communists.