BOLSHEVIST THREATS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 184, 30 April 1919, Page 10

BOLSHEVIST THREATS

LONDON AND PARIS MUST TREMBLE. ("The Times" Special Correspondent.) Helsingfors, March 3. On March 1 at Petrograd extensive festivities took place to celebrate the anniversary of the assassination by anarchists in March, I£Bl, of the Empovoi Alexander 11, which anniversary coincided with that of the creatiou of the Red Army.

The town was beflagged and illuminated, and t.he workers were forced to take part in the processions under the threat of deprivation of food. Before tli6 Winter Palace the garrison marched past to the number of HO,OOD. Speaking aN an official assembly of the Soviet, Sinovyeff, the President of the Cotamune, ssid:

' "Our heroic Red Armv ih destined to fight not only hero in Russia, but also in the streets and squares of London.. Paris, and Rome for the great ideal of Communism. Recently, by concentrating a considerable number of troops near the Finnish frontier under the guise o} manoeuvres, we have said to a.ll Europe! 'Beware, bourgeoisie,,before von touch the Red Lion. You shall not take Petroirad excetit by pa-ssing over our dead bodies.' . "Thanks to our efforts we find ourselves to-day in direct communication with the German Spartncists. and soon our actions will be co-ordinated. Unfortunately during the last days of the war Jlindenbrng succeeded ir. seizing on our eastern Prussian froi'Hi" "HEfons tiul anus destined for the Red Army; but we shall soon replace them, and then the bourgeoisie of London and Paris will tremble anew."

On Eebnwi-y 19 there departed from Moscow* for Spain, France, and England, via. Odessa and Constantinople, a certain T.afarre, a communist who is known to 1)? a. member of the notorious 1 Extraordinary CominHtee and head of the Propaganda. Section. He was ncenmnaniert by a. woman nained Galina Kudfiko. Roth were furnished with Mse Swiss passports in th n names of George Elise Troohet. They I>avo been charged to ceate in Spain a Bolshevist base.

I learn Hint the Foreign Propaganda Section nt Moscow were to hnye oxperderl \ip to Mnreh 1 M.flOO roubles (nominally .630.000.000). of ivliioh 50.000.00(1 wore for the purposes of encouraging limitation in Ireland. It is stated that the. Bolshevists support financially newspapers in England.