DANGEROUS REDS
ANTI-FOREIGN CAMPAIGN IN
RUSSIA
“FOREIGN POWERS PREPARING TO ATTACK BOLSHEVIKS.”
“BRITAIN -PRINCIPAL OF INTERNA TIO'NAL CUTTHROATS. ’ ’
RIGA, Jan. 30. . The Times’ correspondent telegraphs: “The whole of Russia must be militarised” said Voroshiloff, War Commissar addressing pan-Soviet military organisations. “Foreign Powers are preparing to attack the Bolshevists, and we will be fools if we do not take precautions.” He said he hoped to see a membership of 20,000,000, and leading Bolshevists touring Russia urging enrolment. The campaign, which had always Ireen active, had never been more intensive.
Simultaneously, so-called international organisations, which are really Soviet Communists, with a few foreign hangers-on, started a stream of appeals to world workers describing the British Government as “the principal of the international cutthroats.” and urging workers not to handle munitions. The United States were designated as “pirates trying to strangle Nicaragua and to conquer Mexico.”
“The Anglo-American activities are merely the prelude to an attack on Russia,” it was stated,—A. and N.Z. C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10320, 1 February 1927, Page 5
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