The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929. THE COMMUNIST MENACE.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1929, Page 4

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929. THE COMMUNIST MENACE.

From every capital in Europe ominous warnings have been circulated remarks the Auckland “Star,” forecasting serious industrial and social disturbances on May Day. It is reported officially that orders have been issued from the Communist headquarters at Moscow for the organisation of violent disorder at every large centre throughout the Continent, and the German prediction that there will be bloodshed and many violent deaths on Wednesday has tended to increase the public anxiety. In London, Paris, Berlin and Warsaw special precautions are being taken to enable the authorities to cope with any emergency that may arise. But it is believed that in the Continental cities the Communists mean to persist with their demonstrations no matter at what cost to themselves and the population at large. All these depressing facts and rumours may serve to show one how dubious and precarious a foundation the security of the civilised world must rest so long as it is exposed to the insidious and baneful machinations of Bolshevism. For all those incitements and exhortations to violent and sanguinary revolution emanate from one source—the headquarters of the

Third International at Moscow. W’e need not waste time in discussing the question frequently raised by the Bolsheviks themselves, whether the Third International is or is not to bo closely associated or even identified with the government of the Soviet State, It is enough to know that it would be impossible for the Third International to discharge its functions and to follow out its policy of disseminating civil war and re.olution without the permission and the sympathetic assistance of the Bolshevik Dictators. This fact alone indicates Heady the futility and the hypocrisy of the Soviet Republic’s pretended desire for world peace. And it should be enough to dispose completely of the arguments now being advanced by Mr Ramsay MacDonald and the Labour Party at Home for the renewal ol diplomatic relations with Russia. The relusal to recognise Russia in a diplonatie sense does not prevent trade bevvoen Britain and the Soviet State. .Jut it is hard to find a reasonable pretext for close political association with i State which, while professing to work or world peace, is doing its utmost uhroughoiit me world to promote tne nsecurity and strife and destruction .vhich must inevitably follow on its propagation of the abominable doctrine of die Class War.