RUSSIAN INTRIGUE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 5

RUSSIAN INTRIGUE

TO OVERTHROW THE SOVIET. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, February 13. The British United Press Paris correspondent makes a revelation “on the highest possible anti-Soviet autiior itv ” of the details of vast world-wide preparations for a military counterrevolution in Russia on a gigantic scale. He says guns and ammunition are being smuggled over the Polish. .Manchurian and Bessarhin frontiers into Russia, and secretly stored at strategic points expertly chosen. Quantities are purchased on various pretexts in Britain, Germany, and elsewhere, and housed all over the country in peasants huts, caves and granaries. Gun-running is growing m volume every mouth. Over one thousand men are regularly employed therein. The forces at the disposal of the movement outside Russia are stated to be one hundred thousand men of the old Russian Military Union. When the time domes to over-power, the eastern and western frontiers would organise a counter revolution which will he facilitated by a secret anti-Soviet propaganda in the Red' Army and civil services.