SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1927, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

MOSCOW MENACE. LONDON Oct. 24

Moscow's menace against India is greater and more insidious than was the autocratic- Tsardom’s generation age, when the Russian invasion ct India was expected declares Maharajah Burdwan, Indian delegate to the Imperial Conference in 1!)20. The “Daily Mail’’ commenting, says the Soviet emissaries have spread a most attractive web amongst the discontented people of India, speciously suggesting that the Soviet’s instrumentality would lead t:> independence. There is ample ground lor beliot that the Soviet is financing revolutionary propaganda in India. The Soviet also has been for a long time tampering .with Afghanistan and.it is stated the Amir of Afghanistan’s forthcoming tour will include a visit to Moscow, The Soviet is further aiming at 'he infiltration of Bolshevik propaganda and money on the north-west frontier. Moreover, its agents are most active in Persia, leading the government to refuse to allow the AngloIndian air route to Persia. AngloIndian statesmen must deal with Diis danger and the Powers must be increasingly vigilant against a Red menace. POSITION OF RUSSIAN SEAMEN. LONDON. Oct. 24. The Daily Mail’s Genova correspondent says: The International Labour Office publishes striking details ot distress among Russian seamen. There are 25.000 seamen Unionists now unemployed, out of 150.000 I nion members. The Union withdrawals exceed the affiliations by filtv per cent. The wages are barely seventy per cent of the pre-war level. averaging ols monthly. A proposal requesting the Central Committee to demand increased wages was rejected, as being an attempt to carry favour with the massed delegates. It is pointed out that the eight hour day does not exist in Russian ships, owing to the absence of proper accommodation, and also because most of the seamen prefer long hours, to augment their totally inadequate wages. MOSCOW Oct. 24. The Military Court sentenced Vladimir and Krill Prove and Korepanov to death, and the others to two years’ imprisonment.