MR HOLLAND AND THE BOLSHEVIKS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 115, 9 February 1920, Page 6

MR HOLLAND AND THE BOLSHEVIKS

1> ONE OF SIS "LECTURES." "Tho Bolsheviks of Russia and Allied Intervention" was the title of an aildress delivered by Mr. il. Holland, M.i in the Alexandra Hall last night. Mr.

Holland stated that ho hud in his possession some thirty or forty hooks anil pamphlets written about Russia in tie past year or two, among them publications bv Lenin anil Trotsky. Mr. 'Holland likened the Soviet revolution of Kussia to the Paris Comnniue. hut lie said that the causes which had led to the smash of the Commune had failed to destroy the Russian revolution. In Paris, lie said, the Bom.reodsic had incited the wte , t0 sabotage in the Commune milus.ncs, and they had followed a like course in ltussia. When in the end the Commune I went out in a welter oi bloodsht.fi,- it I was flits Bourgeoisie wno were resjion--1 sfoio for the murder of the forty tiiousand men, women, and oluldien who nerished. He made rather a point of , the children in this total, and ' loc '^ L * "The Bourseoisie have always been bail) killers." He denounced intervention on the part of militaristic foreign Governments with the Russian, revolution, sa>- : insr that in effect the forecs of the Busi sian Revolutionary Government were opI nosed to the forcos of Allied capitalism. : Even while Germany anil liriain weio ' stilt at war, he said, they were united to destroy the Socialist regime in RusI „ One other of Mr. Holland's stateZm, -*> "Sr. S'»ST'K-Si ~ "« i recognition to the Government ot kus- •" -