MENAGE OF BOLSHEVISM

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14026, 1 April 1919, Page 6

MENAGE OF BOLSHEVISM

HEATED DEBATE IN FRENCH CHAMBER!. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) PARIS, March 25). French apprehensions regarding Bolshevism were reflected in a heated debate in the Chamber of Deputies in the last few days on Hie situation in Russia. M. Pi chon, the Foreign Minister, declared that Bolshevism was not only the plague of Russia, but of humanity. The French Government had been accused of playing into the hands of the Russian reactionaries, which meant that all who were not partisans of Lenin and Trotsky were to be regarded as Tsarists. He regretted that the Socialist Minority had united to support the Bolshevists against his Government. What the latter desired was a Russian Federal Republic. He did not despise the Bolshevist army, which was staffed by German officers.

Socialists hotly protested against being stigmatised as Bolshevists, because they resisted the idea of military intervention in Russia.

M. Pichon rejoined: “You are not Socialists,” whereupon uproar drowned M. Pichon’s further remarks. M. Pichon maintained that it was necessary to retain Allied forces in Russia. He stated that there were 13,000 British, 5000 American, 2349 French, 2500 Italians and Serbians, and 12,000 Russians in the Archangel region.

FRENCH WAR PREPARATIONS.

MARSHAL FOCH’S PLAN

(United Service.) PARIS, March 29

With the approach of spring the Frencli leaders, who have always taken a more serious view of the Bolsheviks’ military pretensions than the AngloAmericans, have formulated plans for a new Eastern war. M. Glemenccau and Marshal Foch still hope for intervention by Russia itself. The deputies, except the Socialists, strongly support intervention. Marshal Foch’s new plan provides for the mobilisation of all friendly peoples between the Baltic and the Black Sea, including the Czechoslovaks, Greeks and Serbians. M. CLEMENCEAU’S POLICY. DEFENCE OF SMALL NATIONS. (Australian and N Z. Cable Assn.) PARIS, March 30. M. Abrami, in the Chamber of Deputies, announced that M. Clemenceau’s policy was not to send troops to Russia, but to defend the little nations against Bolshevism, especially Poland and Roumania. HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT’S RESIGNATION. DEMANDED BY THE ENTENTE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 31, 12.30 a.m. COPENHAGEN, March 29. Advices from Berlin state that the Entente Powers have demanded the Hungarian Government’s resignation, and the election of a National Assembly under the Entente’s supervision. AMSTERDAM, March 29. General von- Hindenburg inspected the troops oh tlie- Posen-Silesian front. A telegram from Warsaw says! that the Poles have expelled the Bolsheviks from Minsk, which is a great-centre of Bolshevist propaganda. Thet-Polos* are also making progress in Eastern Gadic-ra'; and that the Ukrainians are retiring in disorder along the Kokowiccz-JaVorow line. . ORGANISATION IN AUSTRALIA. BY” RETURNED SOLDIERS. (United Press Association.) BRISBANE, March 31. A procession of 2000 returned soldiers marched through the streets to Parliament House, with the object of impressing the Bolsheviks. The- soldiers have organised a body, which will not cease its activities until Bolshevists’ anarchy is rooted but of Queensland. The agitation has also spread to Ipswich, where a largely-attended meeting carried a motion against Bolshevism.