SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1927, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. SOVIET PLANS. BRITISH JOURNALIST’S VERSION. LONDON, Nov. 30. Sir Percival Phillips, in an article in the “Daily Mail” declares: Ihe Soviet’s conspiracy to Bolshevise Asia includes a resolute attack on the security of the Dutch Indies. The surrender of Java and Sumatra to Bolshevism would tremendously affect the Eastern mind, and supply an important strategic base for a campaign against the British Empire.

After reviewing the operations ol Dutch Communist named Sneebret, and a native Communist named Samaoen, which, he says, resulted in strikes and armed outbreaks in 1920-27, the latter ending with three executions and many imprisonments and deportations, Sir P. Phillips, discloses that Dachlan, a native medical student, and Samaoen’s successor, described a plan lor seizing Batavia, establishing a reign of terror, and killing officials. Sir P. Phillips says the recent rising in Bandoeng was farcically futile, and that secrecy is now superseding the open tactics which failed, owing to the unexpected energy of the Dutch authorities. He continues: The Bolsheviks are exploiting propagandist avenues in Holland, at Mecca, and in China. Some success has been achieved in Java, and more m Sourabaya. An Indonesian National Party has been formed in Bardoeng, in order to throw off Dutch rule. A kindred body is the League to Combat Imperialism. This has its headquarters at Paris. The British member of Parliament, Mr Fenner Urockway, is a member of this League, and was appointed to a deputation to visit Java, to inquire into the alleged Dutch persecutions of the natives. Another British member of the House of Commons, Mr Mardv Jones, is also a member. The Mecca activities have led Ibn Sand to deport numbers of Dutch and Indian Communists.

FASCISTS ARREST. LONDON, Nov. 30. It is reported from Milan that Due Di Cesaro, nephew of Baron Sonnino. one of the signatories to the Treaty of Versailles, was arrested in accordance with instructions issued for the arrest of leading Oppositionists. Di Cesaro accepted a portfolio in the first Fascist Ministry, but resigned, following on *the murder of Matteotti.