RED PROPAGANDA

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 122, 16 February 1921, Page 7

RED PROPAGANDA

EFFORTS TO SPREAD DOCTRINES IN EUROPE . DETAILS OF ORGANISATION REVEALED HEADQUARTERS IN BREMEN By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. February 15, 7.45 p.m.) Paris, February 14. Investigations of the French police revealed details of an organisation for the purpose of infecting France, England, and other countries with Bolshevik doctrines. Secret headquarters were first established at Stockholm and Copenhagen, under Litvinoff, but British secret service discoveries in connection with the "Daily Herald” a.nd the Russian jewels compiled the closing of the Stockholm and Copenhagen offices. Th'e headquarters have now been traced to Bremen, where secret agents are coming into WesteXt Europe through Esthonia. Detectives have secured photographs of many confidential documents. Bolshevik propaganda is organised on military lines, each country being under a special director responsible for all secret agents. The directors work under false names, and do not reside permanently in the country, but move about, leaving 'detailed work to resident lieutenants. None of the subordinate agents know of the existence of the Bre'men headquarters, believing that they receive orders direct from Moscow. The last general meeting of directors at Bremen took place in December. Shorthand notes show that the Bolsheviks have no great hope of success in Franco or Britain, but regard the prospects in Germany, Italy, and Central Europe as promising. Detectives also secured a list of Bolshevik agents 'in different countries, and the sums of money paid them. There are six hundred direct agents from Russia Working in Europe, apart from native propagandists.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN FRANCE GREAT MAY DAY PLOT REVEALED. Paris, February 14. The recent anti-Communist activity is having sensational results. The police investigations have produced unmistakable evidence that the Communist movement extends throughout the country. The centre is at Paris, with secondary centres at Bordeaux, Marseilles, Lille, Brest, and Toulouse. Branches were being .organised everywhere, but hitherto many of them had small numbers of members, mostly youths. According to the "Liberte.” papers seized nt the headquarters of the federation of young Communists revealed a plot for a simultaneous revolutionary movement in France, Italy, and Spain on May 1. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIANS IN _ CONSTANTINOPLE FOR MING- REVOLUTION ARY COMMITTEES. Constantinople, February 13. The presence of 50,000 Russians in Constantinople is occasioning general alarm. They are forming revolutionary committees. Four thousand of Wrangel's officers and soldiers, who have teen brought to desperation owing to the shortage of the necessaries of life, have gone to Anatolia for the purpose of joining Kemal Pasha. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.