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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1927, Page 2

When nearly ten years ago the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, one of. the arguments by which they appealed most strongly to the people of Russia and the world at large was their advocacy of peace. On that plea they succeeded in breaking up tbe Russian armies and detaching the country from the Allies; and it is only their alleged desire to abolish warfare and to secure the benefits of universal peace for the world at large that has seemed to many to justify in some degree the tyranny of their rule. Observe, says an exchange, how strongly the performances of Bolshevism contrast with its promises and predictions. Recently the London cables informed us that Rykoff, Bukharin, and other Bolshevik leaders have been stirring up militarist feeling iri Russia so successfully that the iieonle in their deluded ignorance have already taken steps to hoard the necessaries of life, and prepare in other ways for the coming struggle against capitalism which will lead directly to the- world wide “Dictatorship of the Proletariat.” And by what means and in what fashion is this war to he waged? The British Minister for War is reported as having informed Parliament that Russia lias a standing army of 600,000 with 1,000.000 militia and 8,000,000 reserves, and that “much greater preparations for gas warfare are being made in Russia than anywhere else in the world.” Such is tbe Bolshevik “way of peace.”