INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1920, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

(LONDON TIMES SERVICE —COPrRIGHT] LENIN’S HOPES. LONDON, Nov. 6. Lenin has broken the silence since the Polish reverses. Discussing future plans with Moscow sympathizers, he declared his invincible determination to bring about a world revolution. The Reds defeat in Poland had made bigger field operations imperative, in order to restore prestige. He intends to attack Franco and Britain by means of extensive propaganda in North Africa and India. “We shall succeed,” Lenin exclaimed, "we shall smash the Versailles’ peace and bring the whole world to our feet.” Military plans include an immediate effort to crush Wrangel. Lenin added that Poland’s turn would come later. He displayed the bitterest hatred towards Poland, hut added that Poland was not an unmusical evil, because the German hatred of Poland brought Germany to Russia’s side. German passive resistance to the Versailles Treaty helped the Bolshevists by keep, ing Europe in a state of insecurity. Lenin concluded:—“Germans seek revenge, we seek rqvolutiom. Our interests are identical for the time being, but Germans will become our enemies when the question of a new German hegemony arises, and a Communistic Federation arises on the ruins of old Europe. Latest authentic news, from Russia discounts the story of a counter revolution, which was greatly exaggerated. Madame Nadot ,widow of a Moscow banker was included in the last batch of prisoners returned to France. She says Trotsky’s iron discipline is likely to prevent a collapse of Bolshevism. The army is unpopular and hated, hut the peasants’ indifference and fatalism and the cringing servility of the town popu. lations, prevent any large scale of opposition developing. Everyone is compelled to keep a work book showing the hours laboured and if insufficient the people are compelled to work in scavenging, or woodchopping gangs, or go foodless. COMMAND AT CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. -6. On behalf of the Allies, Marshal Foch and General Wilson have arranged for the Allies command at Constantinople to be held in rotation. For the first two years General Sir Thomas Harrington will act, a French General succeeding him.