TURN OUT THE REDS!

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1927, Page 4

TURN OUT THE REDS!

WORLD-WIDE SUPPORT FOR NEW j CAMPAIGN. 'By COMM. O. LOCKEIt-LAMPSON, ALP., who served with the anti--1 Bolshevik forces in Russia, ‘ Someone onco declared that revolution was only evolution in a hurry; and Communist tub-thumpers have obscured their violence and excused their shamelessness ever since by quoting this cheap and inadequate slogan. Even improved, it would offer no sanction for a sudden appeal from reason to force. Tho public sometimes forgets that Russia suffered two real revolutions in the course of 12 months. The second took place when Lenin entered Russia with German gold and stole from his country every vestige of liberty which she had won. It did not mark an advance forward to a nobler and ampler culture. It was a throwi hack to the ape and the beasts of the I jungle. | It may be argued that this is not our affair; that Russia’s future is Russia’s funeral. A’et it is surely our duty to safeguard our own country from the assaults of an enemy, whether lie use gold or steel as his weapon.

1 The Soviet, not content with countless wrongs against its own nationals, lias, alone of our former Allies, repudiated its debts to England; lias cancelled public bonds paid for by British money; has plundered scores of British men and women, putting ! them in prison, ill-treating them and I slaving sonic, including our Diplomatic I Envov, Captain Cromie. i ‘ PRIVILEGES ABUSED. Yet English Governments have gone to extreme lengths to placate this brutal and treacherous foe. ITiey cn- , terod into a Trade Agreement in 1921 1 under ■ which the Bolsheviks promised ' solemnly to engage in no hostile pio- , paganda against the British Empiio, and subsequently another British Govi eminent granted the Soviet lull do juie J recognition. But these cowardly and futile blandishments of ours did not disarm the Soviet one whit. Ceaselessly, night and day since, it has striven to plot and accomplish England’s ruin. Masquerading. as a “friendly State, it has abused the sealed hags in v*incll wo foolishly allowed it to conceal its correspondence, and it has outraged the diplomatic immunity which wo , weakly gave it, mill} to-day it can cover ijlio Empire with its cordon ol criminals and the poison gas of pro-

paganda. AVo have just emerged from a General Strike. That striko was the oilspring of alien anarchy and could Om.V have existed in our English climate because Moscow’s agents wero free to come ami go, with their tainted ducats to engineer our collapse. The position is exactly similar in the caso of the mining dispute. Originally an industrial dispute, this struggle was prolonged and converted into a political combat, and tho unhappy tools of a class-maniac. Air Cook, wero made the stalking horse of tho Soviet. AGITATORS WITH RED MONEY. Those are acknowledged facts; and n, Blue-book has recently been published which completes the catalogue r ql crimes. The Communist party in England to-day could not exist for a month if it were, not nourished on Soviet gold. It seems that Red candidates at municipal elections, and even some at parliamentary contests, owe their emergence from obscurity to Soviet gold. It is tho same with mob-orators in tho Park who preach sedition; agitators in our arsenals and propagandists in our works. Each and all of them draw a sinister sustenance from a “friendly State” to work for our downf 'lt is now officially admitted that tho troubles in China have been commenced and stimulated hv agents from Russia It is the same in India, where racial riots in Bombay are traceable to Muscovite influence “over tho borders.” Beyond Afghanistan, I too Bolshevik policy has been Croat--1 iim’ buffer States to threaten English ! iniiucnco north of tho Himalaya and to sow discord among the local natives. Civil riot in Egypt has exactly the 1 same origin, and some mercenaries of Moscow have recently been rounded up there. Some of us felt that this challenge to our very being could no longer lie ignored. AVo therefore raised tho issue in the House o. Commons and decided to launch a campaign. EMPIRE BEHIND ANTI-REI)

fight. The response to our movement has keen beyond all expectations. One friend is sending tis £IOOO. and letters pour in Ly every post from all quartets wishing lis well. There is one from an M.C. captain in Shanghai urging us to strike at the root of this lilischiol in Ellwand by cutting off all official communication with the Soviet _at once. A lady writes from South Africa, where recent strikes were, openly financed by agitators professing Bolshevik adhesion. Two Australian officers send ns evidence that the great shipping strike there was plotted by Moscow

mercenaries. The first round of our light fulminates in a great rally at the Albert Hall to-night. There we hope to by down clearly the causes of the campaign and the practical steps which wo propose in order to rid this country of the Scarlet Fever. We feel that Soviet Russia .should never'have been recognised unconditionally. We know that this priceless privilege has been scandalously abused, and we urge that the Trade Agreement with the Soviet should be fortwitli torn up and de jure recognition stra iglitwa.v withdrawn. Further wo insist that no further diplomatic immunity be accorded this defaulting despotism until it has repaid us all it owes and made amends for all its wrongs. _ . Wo also imperatively demand the right to drive forth from our shores the hordes of Bolshevik spies who batten upon our hospitality in order some dav to stab us in the hack. The blustering Toinsky has had the door slammed in his face, hut, worse than lie remain. And what is tile good of sending British Communists to gaol for offences against the law when we have at largo the allien pimps who procured their treachery? There can he no peace in industry and no security to the realm until the festering fungus of exotic Bolshevism is rooted out.