The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1920. BRITAIN'S NEW ENEMY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3384, 13 January 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1920. BRITAIN'S NEW ENEMY.

With which is incorporated “The Taihape Post. and Waimarino News.”

l‘ndications' are that not even in ,the‘ great Indian Mutiny, headed by fithc elusive Nana Sahib, in 1857, was i the Far Eastern question -of so grave a lnature for Britain as it is at the pre \sent time. ~ The cause of trouble is Bolshevisni, that damnable cult has planned to leaven the whole world, and the sooner the nature of the danger is realised the sooner will ruthless massacre and murder cease, enablingithe peoples of the world to return to those ways of peace by which only they can live. In repressing the Mahsuds and neighbouring -tribes many British lives were sacrificed, owing, to some extent, to the fact that the forces trained.in' mountain warfare had been “ withdrawn. In Russia. the civilised world has one more instance added to the number that no single nation can be, permitted to welter in its own blood} without becoming an ever-widening"! menace to other nations and peoples.l In the present case it is the most: .crude and ignorant of all modern! countries that is sowing the seed ofl revolution wherever its members go_ A. l half-llGß.l‘i'ed attempt was made to cit-I cumscribe the trouble, 135 gonfine itl to purely R_ll_SSiall ‘soil, and there leave . it; to work itself out. Many in Britain, 1 America, and in lesser nations believed this course of treatment would have i the desired efiect, on the other hand, it was recognised that Bolsheviks could not remain caged in Central Russia, but that they must move into new country, if only for the means to live.’ The word of the leaders of Bolshevism was believed when they stated that the Russians wanted -only the right to govern their own country ‘in their own way, and Allied forces that were present for checking the spread of that curse on civilisation were withdrawn. In ‘only a few months many thousands Of propaglandists have surreptitiously reached many .l*a.ndas, while armed forces of anarchy are already threatening the very .frout.iel"s of British possessions. The whole of Central Asia is now the field of Bolshevik extension; Moslems are being inflamed against the British, so much so that it seems as though B'olshevil~:s were vcarrying on ithe desire and determination of the‘ 1 Kaiser and Prussianism to wrest from L British people the lead in the progress . of the world’s civilisation. There -are all the elements in Bolshevik successful propaganda amongst Afghan and Indian Mohammedanism for an ‘up}leaval that may do more to disturb ‘the wor-]'d’s peace -and progress than Prussianism has done. Is _the Asiatic field to be left uncared for? Will Japan be content with the forces now commencing to control and extend Japanese interests in Sipe-ria, heedless of what may happen in Bolshevising India. and Persia? It has not been disclosed what course Britain and her i Allies intend ‘taking, but it is certain that no highway for Bolshevism into India can be permitted. If half Europe * and"the greater part of Asia is won for ,Anar¢';hy, then the complete destruci tion of the civilised World is assured, and it is as well lthat New Zealauders shoum recognise -the danger that is already at work in their midst, while there is yet time -to raise a voice in advocating effective means of steinming it. Cables arriving daily clearly. indicate that Bolshe-vik ' armies are marching victoriously in every direction. Ag, Lord Sydenham svated: “By -the irony of fate, the ‘.Kaiser’s prophecy of the Eastern peril has been let loose, and there are forces .to make it a reality before long.” For such

.canc.erou_s diseases -as Nihilism‘,--.Anlal~ chy, and Bolshevism the knife is the only cure, the only thing that can save. the life which is seriously attacked, why is the knife \\'ith-‘held? India is under-g-arrisoned to an alarming degree; will Britain wait 5501' I'oP9ti' tions of the Nana Sahib massacres before entering any serious protests‘? Public opinion is the niainspring‘ Of Governments; a taut public oPini‘_m will urge ‘Grover-nment on to action; _m a limp, listless, indifierent public OPHI’ ion, governments -are Inol'e likely i_° drift into trouble than out of it. British newspapers are commcnciflg t_° exhibit gnavc concern about the Posl‘ tion in India regarding -the active. Bolshevik propaganda proceeding through‘ out Central‘ Asia. They -are doubtless beginning ‘to realise that the road to India and to Australasia was not I6ll‘ dered either safe or sure when Pius" sianism was defeated; it is booomlllg apparent that the real menace to the Ihighway to the East, inc.ludll’lß'_ fills iDominion, is only_ now making It.s_el€ lfelt, rand civilised Powers are doing ’ nothing that the world is 3«“"31'.e ?f to prevent it. The United States IS 50 ‘underniined with the 1”l10l0W3y5 Of Bol’ shevism that an attack on the GOVT ernment was in actual train; iS 311' 't'ain, is South Africa,’ is Australia, {is New Zealand more free from the persistent. treachery of Bolshevisln than the United States are‘? It is very doubtful indeed. Nothing would help civilisation along more than for workers to study the methods ‘Of GOVGTTI‘ lment, and to take that place in the management of public afiairs the)’ should do, but is there any consideration given to the question which elections in various parts of the Empire are virtually -asking‘? ‘The Labour vote {is increasing -by leaps. and bounds, . assisted by Bolshevik propaglall(la.. Welknow loyal working people will resent such a. suggestion, but actual evidence that is undeniable is convincing nevertheless. In Australia there has been for over ten years a L'abour Government, now there are two Labour parties, the Nationalist Labourites and i Extreme Labour. One is the modera:‘e, sane labour, the other consists of those who have been cajoled into entering [the extremist camp, in which Bolsheviks have located themselves. In New "Zealand leaders in the extremist category boldly proclaimed that Libel‘-alism was a thousand times more iiavourablc to the workers than was Conserv:ltis_-n, iancl yet they urged workersto voth for Conservatism where no Labour candiL date was in the field. The fact is foreked upon every intelligent being that M/Bolshcvism and extreme Labour have no desire to improve, or work for improvement. Their religion is (lestl'uc‘tion,_ absolute destruction, and all their efforts are bent mpori. eftecting destruction of Go~vernment; in creating national chaos: in breaking up community and home life; in wiping clelstr I;_z,way the social status upon whi-.v.h home life, as Britons _understand it, is ‘based; they strive for disorganisation, confusion, complete disorder, the ibreak-up of eVerythillg_,_ and then K what? We know that some of the best linen in New Zealand are ’r.hro\vi.llg in their lot with extremists, and 1.11.; 1'!»icent elections indicatedithat. this 1».:,-~,d----ency is growing; they see no other way of saving themselves from destruction by profiteers and trusts. All .La.bour is marshalling under one banner which floats over the '3.)'shev2-k destroyers, as well as the labour imprcvcr. .New Zealand is '.'l'll'3li(’lC(i, the '.-Jlrole British Empire is threatened, and ‘the old rut of fll'i‘."t cannot Ibo got rid of. The Bolshcvik section of the Labour forces is persistently telling sensible Labour that everytlling said or written Hl‘.-ll‘. is l.l(’l'()g’:ll‘()l'}' to B0iSll(‘\'lSlll is satanic lying, and nothing is done to cornbat it; because the Giweifnment knows it is a mass of abSll1'(lll}’ they tzonclude that everybody ought to know it also, notwithstanding the lesson they received at the elections. Each part of the Empire imust mould public opinion ‘therein if !the wave of Bolshevism that is now menacing ‘-the world ’s civilisation as a Whole, and British interests in particu1211', is to be broken and dissipated.