SOVIET TAMPERING WITH AFGHANISTAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 184, 25 October 1927, Page 1

SOVIET TAMPERING WITH AFGHANISTAN

RED MENACE OF INDIA MAHARAJAH’S WARNING By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Sunday. "Moscow’s menace against India is greater and more insidious than that of the autocratic Tsardom of a generation ago, when a Russian invasion of India was expected,” declares the Maharajah of Burdwan, who was the Indian delegate to the Imperial Conference in 1926. , Commenting on the statement, the Daily Mail” says emissaries of the Soviet have spread a most attractive T-u am °hg the discontented people in India. They have speciously sugSoviet’s instrumentality will lead to their independence. The Paper says there is ample ground for the belief that the Soviet is financing revolutionary propaganda in India. It adds:— 'The Soviet has also been tampermg with Afghanistan for a long time. ™ It is stated that the Amir of -ugnanis tan’s forthcoming tour will include a visit to Moscow. Further, it ui T^et ’ s aim l n B at the infiltration „ Bolshevik propaganda and money ..r 18 North-west frontier. Moreover, the Soviet is most active p , rsia. This activity led to the Government refusing to allow a British-Indian air route to Persia to ?• , established. Both British and udian statesmen must deal with this banger. The Powers must be increasvigilant against the Red menace.” —Sun.