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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1927, Page 2

Tun London revelations in respect to Russian activities are in keeping with those disclosed respecting the Soviet crusade in Asia. Some of the documents seized recently in the Russian Embassy at Pekin while throwing a good deal of light on Bolshevik activities in the Far East, probably also gave something of a clue to what was transpiring at the English headquarters of the activities in London. The papers indicated an elaborate system of'espionage and the expenditure .of large sums to maintain the revolutionary movement in China. amT~to direct it in such a way as to do the greatest injury to British prestige ami interests It has been plain that these instructions have been attended to very faithfully, for the set against Britain has been very pronounced, and the interests of Great Britain have become. certainly, very much involved in the general issue. There was the usual denial of the genuineness of the documents, as there is now in respect to (hose seized in London, hut we may he sure the British Government has been acting circumspecting and is assured of the ground taken. Tt was a very grave measure at the outset to raid the headquarters of a foreign Power. It was something in the nature of a very unusual precedent, and would not he attempted except on the best information, and the soundest advice. The tone and purpose of the documents in both instances are in keeping with the trend of the Bolslievik policy—the endeavour to overthrow British interests. The constitution' of Britain recognises social and political liberty and the stability of private ownership. These are hateful to the Bolshevist creed, and the whole propaganda of that organisation is laid on anti-lines. There seems to he much evidence outside the documents seized of the anti-British campaign directed from Russia, and it is time there was a national check to the effort -which appears to be almost world-wide. The remarkable aspect of the -subject is that so many people of British alleginnee give ooyntenonce to these

Russian emissaries in Great Britain. The political Labor Party lias Become entangled in the toils by reason of its Communistic following and the whole party is tainted by reason of some of ns members touching pitch. It is the same in other parts of the Empire where Labor seeks to assist itself politically, there is apology for Russian ways and methods, hut as the Soviet is so bent on destruction of all things British, it is time that, attitude was revised very seriousl v.