MOSCOW'S MENACE

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 25 October 1927, Page 11

MOSCOW'S MENACE

ACTIVITIES IN INDIA. INCREASED VIGILANCE URGED. (»I CABLE— FBES3 ASSOCIATION— OOPTBIOHT ) (BYDNEY "SUH" SeEVICE.) (Received October 24th, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 23. "Moscow's menace against India is greater and more insidious than it was in autocratic Tsardom's age, when a Russian invasion of India was expected," declares the Maharajah of Burdwan, the Indian delegate to the Imperial Conference of 1926.

The "Daily Mail," commenting on the statement, says: "The Soviet emissaries have spread a most attractive web among the discontented peoples of India, speciously suggesting that the Soviet's instrumentality would lead to independence. There is ample ground for the belief that the Soviet is financing revolutionary propaganda in India. The Soviet has also been for a long time tampering with Afghanistan, as it is stated that the Amir of Afghanistan's forthcoming tour will include a visit to Moscow.

"The Soviet is further aiming at the infiltration of Bolshevik propaganda and money on the north-west frontier. Moreover, its agents are most active in Persia, leading tho Government to refuse to allow a British-Indian air route to Persia.

"British-Indian statesmen must deal with this danger and the Powers must be increasingly vigilant against the Red menace.' 1

DELAYING THE CRASH. RUSSIA AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. (BT CABLE—PHESS ASSOCIATION— COPTBIOHT.) ("THE TIMES.'!) LONDON, October 23. The Eiga correspondent of "The Times'" says thatt M. Karakhan, addressing tho Eed Parliament, reviewing the international situation, declared that the Soviet vras delaying the crash with the bourgeois of the world because four factors were working for the Soviet's victory, namely, disarmament among the Powers, British friction with the Dominions, the pro-Soviet movement's increase among Labour supporters throughout the world, and the Soviet's own increasing strength. The Soviet viewed the British Empire's discord and the Europe-Asian disputes as of tho greatest importance in assisting oppressed Asiatics. The Soviet had also concluded treaties with Persia and Afghanistan which established the Moscow-Kabul telegraph, and a wireless station at Kabul. Moreover, the Soviet had secured Turkey's friendship. M. Litvinoff, referring to M. Eakovsky (the Ambassador whose recall France insisted on) expressed the opinion that the French Government was cutting an absurd figure, and stood on an inclined plane leading to a rupture between France and the Soviet. (lHOI?xaoa—K01LTI00S8T BS»Ha—CTBT3 Iff)

SOVIET INFLUENCE IN PERSIA.

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CALCUTTA, October 23. Sir Sultan Ahmed, Vice-chancellor of Patna University, who has just returned from Persia, has issued warning of the growth of Russian, influence in Persia.

He says that Persian markets are now flooded with Russian goods. British goods are noticeably absent, due to Russian pressure: The T>uzdab railway is being run at a - great financial loss, and Persians are being led to suspect everything that is British.