MOSCOW BRIBES OF GOLD

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1926, Page 4

MOSCOW BRIBES OF GOLD

- DUPING BRITISH MINERS. MOSCOW, June 1. Soviet Russia has by no means lost hope in the ultimately Bolslievisation of Great Britain. The sudden eollapse of the general strike was a staggering blow to the -Moscow Dictatorship, but that sinister combination of Communist Opportunists is still engaged in ■fomenting unrest among the working classes through its thinly disguised agents in this country. The money grant to the British minersMs but one form of incitement to revolt which Zinoviev and his satellites arc utilising to the utmost. Moscow denies that this fund is anything but a spontaneous gesture of sympathy by the miners of Russia for their brethren in Great Britain. It is impossible for 141,800 halfstarved miners, wffose pay is only 49s a month—4o per cent less than in Czarist days—to subscibc a penny for the support of men in whom they have no interest, at a time when the cost of living is far higher tlinij ever before. The whole story of “voluntary aid ” is devoid of credibility. REVOLUTIONARY AVAR CHEST. The real power behind the “world revolution ” moveinut. is the so-called Third International, a mysterious organisation which the Soviet Government officially disowns but which nevertheless is a part of itself. The Third International is responsible for the anti-British, agitation in China and throughout the Empire wherever its propagandists have been able to find a foothold. It has a large sum in gold at the disposal of these agents. -Money sent to Shanghai' during the Labour, troubles, which purported to be “sympathetic assistance ” for the native strikers from the Russian trade unions, really

came from the revolutionary war chest, ’the key to which is in the hands of the Third International. ! The same tactics were followed in exploiting the general strike in Great Britain. The special agents placed here and temporarily at convenient ports on the other side of the Channel to direct the revolutionary movement when it had made sufficient headway were under the orders of the Third International. The Russian miners arc being used, like their fellow-workers in other branches of labour, as a blind for the activities of the Red fighting forces. Moscow has various channels through which it feeds the revolutionary movement throughout the world. Not the least useful is its group of commercial agencies, closely allied with the central Bolshevik machine, which are supposed to develop trade between the Soviet State and other countries. Oneof the largest organiastions of this kind is called Arcos. of which we have an over-staffed branch in London. ARCOS. Whatever Arcos may claim to be in Great Britain, there is no doubt of its activities elsewhere. The branches in China and Manchuria, maintained for - trade which is practically non-existent, have been nests of Bolshevik agitators. When Chang Tso-lin, the anti-Bolshevik leader in Southern Manchuria, raided an Arcos headquarters during his lust' campaign against the . Bolshevik C'hintsoc general Feng he found a mass of documents showing that the agency was maintained solely as a base for the snvead of Communist ideas and the distribution of money to keep them alive among the Chinese. The London headquarters of Arcos is an imposing office building in .Moorgate. -More than 500 men and women, whose political views have been carefully tested, are employees in its maze *of offices there and in smaller branches. Arcus showed where it stood during the general strike by issuing verbally to nil employees that they were on no account to use the omnibus or railway services. The Bolshevik system of espionage which is now a feature of ordinary life in Russia made it impossible for the employees to disobey this order without defection, and some of them collapsed under the strain imposed by walking long distances to and from .

their work. •• NOT LIKE RUSSIANS.” Every Bolshevik maintained in Great Britain by the Moscow Government fully believed that the general strike would lead to a successful revolution. Choshnm House, the home of the Soviet Embassy, laid in six months’ store of provisions and petrol. Even “White” Russians feared that the Communism would triumph. A business man" told me yesterday how one of them harassed him for the settlement of a small debt “before it was too late.” When the strike collapsed my informant said to his Russian creditor: ‘.‘Are you surprised?” “ Yes,” said the other. “ the British people have surprised us. They are not like us Russians.” Moscow is still making the same mis" take.