The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is in corporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1925, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is in corporated the West Coast Times. MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1925.

Lath English liles in August give particulars of the British seamen’s strike at Home, which go to indicate that the event, was a Red attack on the Empire. The London “Daily Alaii” goes on to say:—“There can he no doubt that this country and its associated

States and territories are just now exposed to a formidable and concerted attack. This onslaught is world-wide, and is manifesting itself simultaneously in many different quarter*. But it has one centre and origin, and where that lies there is no mystery. The plot against British shipping, British commerce; and the prosperity and stability of the British peoples has been engineered by Communist groups who are linked up with the Soviet Government of Russia. The campaign is directed and financed from Moscow and worked through the Red agents hero and elsewhere. Great Britain is to bo struck at. and if possible .struck down, first, because if Britain falls the main bulwark against universal economic and political chaos will have been overthrown. The scheme lias extensive ramifications, li is the ferment working in the seething Chinese cauldron. Bolshevik emissaries and Bolshevik bribes have definitely concentrated tho vague nationalist upheaval into a furious anti-British movement. The boycott on our trade and the attempted economic blockade of Houg-Kong nro the direct results of this propaganda AVc draw our life-blood from the sea, and it is on the sea that we are being specially attacked. Our ocean transport is to he harassed and interrupted as it was hv the German submarine l in the war, though by different means Strikes and labour revolts are employed instead of bombs and torpedoes. Sc we have disaffection among sailor? and dock workers promoted in Australia, in Canada and in this country itself. The sailing of some ships from the Thames has been postponed by a strike of seamen over the recent reduction of wages agreed to on behalf of the men by the National Seamen’s and Firemen’s Union. Mr Havelock AVilson. the president of the union, declares that the trouble at tho ■East India Docks has been '‘engineered by Reds, and those who struck are non-unionist- and uneniployahlcs.” How little the sailors as a whole sympathise with these outbreaks was show n (in the ease of the R,nvn] Mail steamer Orliita. which was delayed on Saturday because a mini tier of the firemen were persuaded by one of their number to leave the vessel. Bator tho majority returned to duty and the ship was able to get under way. In Australia British crews with no real grievance of [ their own are being incited or terrorised into disoltodienee by local Communist agitators acting under orders from headquarters. These agitators are ingenious in their use of every kind of poisoned weapon. Here in England they are trying to undermine the discipline of they- Royal Navy. Bogus bluejackets harangue Hyde Park audiences on the alleged wrongs of the lower deck. These men may wear the names of H.M. ships on their hat-rib-bons, hut they lielong to • no" - British man-of-war. They are units in that Red armada which is being mobilised in all the Continents For active service against Britain. The raiders, will, of course, fail in their object. The British Empire is not going to he hied to death or even weakened by the revolutionary hornets. The pestilent creatures can buzz and sting, hut their bite is not fatal, 'They will in due

course be brushed aside or trodden under foot. AVe have faced and overcome more powerful assailants, and need not be frightened by this malignant conspiracy. Only ivc must recognise that it exists and will continue. Plenty of money, some fertile brains, and an utter lack of scrtiplo arc behind the Moscow-Communist- plot against the British Empire. AVe must take the requisite measures to crush it.”