The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7th, 1925. FROM BAD TO WORSE.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1925, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7th, 1925. FROM BAD TO WORSE.

Tut; attitude of the East, as also Russia. to the West is being demonstrated fairly palpably of late. The uprising in China is a patent indication of the trend of feelings among a race of teeming people. Russia, since the revolution, has taken a new stand towards the rest of the world, and the accounts of doings in the country are often rather garbled. First hand inhumation in regard to both countries mentioned is referred to in a recent work by an enterprising Colonial newspaper man who went abroad to glean for himself what were the actual conditions. A publication has resulted, and a reviewer epitomises the impressions gleaned by personal contact with the peoples ol the two nations, in the following notice of the work, lie writes: When .Mr (!. C. Dixon, an Australian journalist, set forth on the journey deserilied in his hook. “From Melbourne to .Moscow’’, his friends thought he had taken leave of his senses. A tour in the east by all mean--. That was quite in order. But Siberia! At the best ol times ii was a terra incognita and what, must it. be* like under Bolshevik rule! And Russia! However Mr Dixon got through safely and the record of his travels makes a more* readable volume. Bis impressions ol China no l particularly interesting in view of recent events. Ever since the seamen won the .shipping strike in Hongkong four years ago. and the people began to absorb Bolshevik doctrines, the Chinese have grown increasingly race-con-scious and truculent. Even in Hongkong insolence and incivility to the foreigner are common. There is no doubt that Red propaganda is responsihle for this development. When the author was crossing Siberia it was reported that there had I eon a rising in China. Two Bolshevik couriers, follow passengers in the tram, were delighted at the news. “Bond, good.” they said. “We hope that they kill all the British and Americans. What we want is plenty of hlood in C hina, f n Shanghai, in Harbin. indeed, in cverv city he visited, .Mr Dixon lotind swarms of Russian refugees. They were all sorts and conditions of people, aristocrats and peasants, army officers and bourgeoisie. Their plight is simply appalling. How most ot them live no one knows. The refugee who gels the most menial ioh can count himself lucky. Their presence has had a very serious moral idle t. A\ lieu white meu beg in the streets, when white woman consort with coolies, and are* found in the lowest dens of vice, the prestige of the foreigner is gravely impaired. Thinking that he might have diliieiilty in entering Russia, .Mr Dixon had taken the precaution, before lie left Australia, of providing himself with n recommendation from Mr Thomas Walsh, ft was an open sesame, which worked like a charm, lie spent some time in Moscow, and in his account of Bolshevism in operation lie is concerned to toll the unvarnished truth. We would advise anyone who may cherish any lingering illusions about the blessings of Communism to read these

chapters. Never was a nation so regimental and disciplined. At the revolution the Russians were invited to throw off their chains. They did. only to find that they had fastened upon themselves fetters still more grievous.