FIGHTING THE BOLSHEVIKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3013, 20 March 1926, Page 4

FIGHTING THE BOLSHEVIKS.

WHAT IS BEING DONE IN £ BRITAIN. 1

The International Anti-Bolshevik Reviejw for January, 192(5, a monthly journal published by the •“International Entente,” supplies a }| great amount of matter describing the activities of the Red Interna- j, tional in all countries where it is active. j It gives information of the Bolshevik crusade in so many conn- f trie.s that the question arises — where is it not active? From the ] news published there can be no doubt that the Red menace has been hard at work in Great Britain. Lovers of the Mother Country will wish ( to know what is being done to com- . bat the evil in the Homeland. Even ‘ from the standpoint of our own j interest it is well we should know as much as possible of what is taking place, as there must be a reflex in the Dominions if the evil spreads at Home. The Review mentioned gives the following resume of events affecting Britain in 1925, and it is by no means complete, the Red activities in South Africa, Egypt, China, Australia, might be added. THE CHRONICLE. Great Britain. —Seamen’s strike in England and colonial ports inspired and supported by the bolshevik international and the English communists. The Government of the United States refuses the visa to the communist M.P. Saklatvala, —Hook, secretary of the Miners’. Federation carries on active bolshevik propaganda against the British government.—Home secretary on several occasions denounces bolshevik peril and confirms relationship with Moscow of English communists. Formation of the O.M.S. to insure continuance of public services in case of strike. Expulsion of 50 foreign communist agitators from Great Britain. Leading English papers deounce the intrigues of the bolshevik international and Soviet. all over the world directed against England in particular (“Times” Oct. 2 etc.) Arrest of six Rusian Communists at congress at Glasgow and their expulsion. Seizure of a bag containing communist propaganda tracts at NewI haven. Arrest of 12 leaders of the British communist party. They are tried and condemned for attempting to overthrow the constitution by acts of violence. The court notes their subversive acts and there acI ccptancc of money from Moscow. Communists make unsuccessful protest demonstration. Arrest at Brussels of two communist courriers taking bolshevik money and literature to England. Parliament rejects the MacDonald motion prolesting against the condemnation of British communists. Mr. Winston Churchill, in a speech on November 28th., denounces the criminal activities of Moscow which “threaten I the entire world.” The law proposred by Commander Loeker-Lampson I prohibiting the reception of inomiy from abroad for revolutionary action in Great Britain is voted by Parliament on first reading. Five Russian communist agitators are expelled from Glasgow on December Ist. On December sth and 6th police make domiciliary visits to numerous communists in the provinces, several arrests. Meetings between representatives of Soviet and British Trade Unions at London and Berlin (December) conlirm the necessity for close collaboration, despite the negative attitude of Amsterdam. Sailors on a British man-o’-war sing the “International” in place of morning prayers. A recent work by Dr. A. Shadwell “The Communist Movement” gives more detailed information of the Third International’s recent movements in Britain. Even the above sketch shows that the Authorities at Home are finding it necessary to take this campaign very I seriously though not in a spirit of panic. I (Contributed by the New Zealand Welfare League).