MOSCOW CREED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 5

MOSCOW CREED

ROAD TO WORLD SWAY INVASION OF POLAND ATTITUDE TO JAPAN AIDING CHINA’S STRUGGLE (Reed. Sept. 19, 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, Sept. 18. The Moscow radio station, referring to the invasion of Poland, said: ‘ The road will be open for a world-wide triumph for the Communist creed, the spread of which was arrested by the late Marshal Pilsudski at the gates of Warsaw in 1920 and by the Polish Fascist State in subsequent years,”

Moscow messages quote radio reports stating that the Russian troops are being deliriously welcomed by die populations of White Russia and the Ukraine. Civilians are greeting the soldiers with, flowers, Political commissars have begun organising meetings in order to tell the people what a wonderful life the Soviet citizens enjoy. The Soviet troops everywhere are hailed as "liberators” by ,he “poverty-stricken people.”

The broadcast added that relations between the Soviet and Japan were far from being satisfactorily settled as the Japanese insisted that they were settling alone the China “incident” in which the Soviet was

vitally interested. Russia would continue to support China’s struggle for the preservation of her independence. A Tokio message stales that the Japanese deny that a non-aggression pact with Russia is contemplated, that Germany arranged the armistice on the Manchukuo frontier and that Germany can change Japan’s Russian policy. Tokio states that the armistice is being presented as part of Japan’s plea for peace in China. According to the Japanese view, the Russian invasion of Poland shows that Russia has serious reasons for desiring peace on the eastern frontiers and is prepared to throw Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek overboard. A message from Berlin states that the German Foreign Minister, Herr Von Ribbentrop, who returned especially from the front with a number of military leaders, md General Terauchi, the leader of the Japanese military mission on his arrival from Rome.