The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1920. LENIN’S GREAT" MILITARY TRIUMPH.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3390, 20 January 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1920. LENIN’S GREAT" MILITARY TRIUMPH.

With which iis incomorated “The Taihape Post. and Waimarino News.”

J While the New Zealand Premier is I planning a pleasure jaunt to the Pacilfic Islands for his newly eleetcd.Pal'lliament the British War Ofilce has islesued. another war alarm that is of a. most disconcerting character. It de~ clared that a new great danger had arisen in the East,'W»here there was likely to be a “flame iup” on a very ‘large scale, and 13ritis»h war commitinients ‘would again become neee.~:sary. Lloyd George is disappointed at the failure of t.he anti-Bolshevik forces in -Russia, and ‘has lost faith in their claim for assistance-. Is the alternative to assisting Yudenitch, Denikt-~11 {and Koltehak to mean further Entcnte ‘military and naval action against Lenin, or are the blood—stained murderers and assassins of all classes, from the poorest peasant to the innocent children of «royalty, to «be given a ‘clear road to complete .subjugation of .thc wllole- world? Len-in stands at lthe head of the most brutal organisaltion that it is possible for humans to ‘imagine. and well may men and wo'men who do not understand the people gwho can in cold blood commit the ‘most brutal horrors and murr,ln.rs on [innocent girls, dallgh.i26‘l‘S of their ‘EIIII peror as well as: the daughters of other classes Surely no one will deny [that those helpless, imprisoned girls‘ [were not murdered by Lenins gang of lent-throats, if so, how is their disap-‘7 pea.-rance accounted for? What very] ‘nearly, and very deeply concerns "New “ , Zealand lies in the fact that Llgnifl has ; {conquered very nearly the whole of‘ Russia; in fact the London Times‘ points out, “that Lenin’s military tri-i I umph is almost complete. He has‘! C011(l1lere-<1 the gre-atcr part of the Rus— 1 si-an Empire, and is ready to take the field in the spring with a great disciplined 3«1'111Y- He aims at World I‘€‘v'()7.l.‘.- I “On, the overthrow of Western civilisation and christia.nity.” 'l‘h~3 T'.m<-si I adds, “The danger must be faced, ‘now (10 the Amielsa Propose to face it? Lord Beam’; Sir Henry Wilson, Winston Churchill and the Hon_ W. H. Long] have been «h.urried.ly summoned to‘ Paris to discuss this Bolshevik peril with the Allied Conference. Among the qll"3*stiolls ‘£9 be asked. and deci<:lo:-I1 at that conference. are, “Is the world Dl‘epatl‘e~d for having Western. Civilisation ‘and Ohristianity -sup-er-ceded and aos“3l'oYecl? Is the world cont~.,-nt 150 take its eivil~isati‘on and religion from a. Russian -source; from that country "that is. more deeply steeped in ignor--' 31140-e and in the most brutal crime‘ than any other -country, western 01‘ Othenvisle? It is diflicult. to realisei that the time has actually come for seriously plying ‘ourselves with {such questions, but the stone cold, fact that the world has eitlier to fight for eiv-. ilisation and christianity, or become. Leninzised now, ‘in ‘truth, fac-es us. The»; British War Office has not struck thcf alarm one minute too ‘soon, for Lenin g has control of "both money and muni-.’ tions that 7is ~enlablin'g him to carry Vic?

tory throughout the Russian Empire, and, at the same. t~ime- se-nd Very large sums to va‘riou-s- countries to ke.e~p vir-

jilxe a propaganda. that is already men]ac«i'ng the stability of governments. I'rul-ks are fighting with'Bolsheviks on ithc Persian border, and Turkisll itroops-l in British Mesopotamia :Ire beying nstirre-d into action :2.ga.inst the iismall Britilsrh. force in that locality. Deniken yet holds the road to India, but Len-in has concentratC:d an army against ‘him, and he 'i§ hopelessly out-I 'I1UlII'1bOI'e(1' and his army must give ‘way just as soon as any pressure is U put upon it. The Entente has now to face possible, if not probable, defeat from -a, new Russianism ELft.€-1' having checked and‘ subdued the old Prussian. \ ‘isnn, unless the Allied Conference, to: ‘w.-h-i'c'll Beatty, Wlils-on, Churchill and Long have been summ.one'd, determines

upon a course that will involve the

E3l‘-iUi'S‘~h; Elllpil'e in war again. There ‘1133 I‘ooollt'l3’ been a no'ticea.ble zlesire ito Com-PMS the League of Nations coveiiamt, and in most I‘epl'e‘S2?llta.tiVe body of British citizens, a body repreSentative of all classes, including men from Unionist ranks as well as from Faults of lalbour, ‘has issued a. nrc-m-01--ial over their .si~gnAa.tul“es to all leading governments, including Britain, (‘France and America, chiefly with a .view to restoring the financial equilibrium and abating the stupid creation Of false values, which constitnte- the greatest risk, because they stand in the way of dealing with the Belshevik ‘.nlen:a'c.e_. and, in fact, drive men "in western countries’ into the forces of IBolshc-Viis-m. ;The name of Lord Inchcape being fl.llloll'g‘S:t the -memorvialists is some sort of guarantee, or ind'ica.ltion, that leaders of Shipning Combines are scventing the ‘iianger that ‘WGY haVe so materially assisted to [create by acts that could only result [in throwing the mas-sses of the whole; \vorl'd into revolt. With the d-i-ssatis-j faction -in Central Asia, India, China, and the opposition of the masses ini [Japan to any war against Bolshe~vism' in Siberia, a great 1-espon-slibility devolves upon the newly-forme-d League‘ of Nations Lust for political power its responsible fo-r the rupture of govlernment in Russia, but the alarming spread of Bolshevilsm in all other “western nations is due .to difliculties of {living that have been artifically set up. ,Bolshcvism has so great a hold in Rus. lsia that only a campaign} on a comprehensive scale can check and subdue it, and the Bolshevism that -pervades society in all western countries can only be stayed and eliminated by re-. moving the causes that are responsible for its presence and spread. 11; seems to have been fully recognised‘ that the people of western nations would oppose any attempt of the League of Nationg to handle, militarily and na.v—i ally, the wave of destruction that is, passing over civilisation, unless. life at home is ren-dorod :mo.l'e bearable, how‘ ever anxious ‘the. classes are to enter;

upon -rep-resasivc workein Russia, in Me-szopotamia and elsewhere. It is also now being recognised that‘ Germany and the whole of Central Europe must be rescued from the Bols-hevik curse; to allow Gm-nla.ns~ and Austni-a.ns to fall into a cond-i-tion of despair would be to hand the peoples. of those countries over to Lenin, to furnish “him with a recruiting ground whereby he could rapidly b»ring the whole World with its boasted power and civilisation at his feet. Germany would supply the material in men and war zma.clhiln'ery that Lenin most lacks, and work as Entente nations might they, could 11e\'or exceed the output of a Gel-ma‘n-Rusasirm conlbina‘tioll of Inun>it~ion fac-

tories and workmen. Whether the New Zealand Government is s\‘lls.ib-13*’ aware of the nature -of the alarm that the B»ritis.ll War Office has sounded, and which the London Tim;v.s« has tersely de.<;cl'i'.bed, is doubtful. Nothing is being done despite the fact; that during the election campaign so many things were of immediate importance.

Nothing troubles our Government; the Pl-e-mier stated there was nothing for Pa-rliament to do, and it was quite unnec'..ws»szu‘y for Pzn-hinmcnt to meet be-

fore the usual! tilne, six months hence-. Newly elected mcnlbol's- are told there is -nothing to (10 in bringing about an equilibrium that will be found as necessary «here avs. :olseWhel'e; in fact the Premier has planned :1 Scheme for ‘preventing Parlizamon-t from doing anything towards reconstruction and increased production, in short, from in-te-:-fering in anyway with the ~govlernment of.the country, by sondinjg them right out of the country on a. long ‘holiday at the -co>unt.l'y’.s expens-0.. Alltt.h~is is audaciowsly taking place While ‘the British War Office sounds the tocsin of War, and advi'se,g that I~arge- war commitments are neccssa.ry. If me.-n Vii“ 0111)’ T 931380 that the word com-

mvitments involve nm-11 as well as m'one.y it should give them some idea of the real danger of the Bolshe-vik dct~e-rm'i=n-

ation to overthrow western civilisation and blot out Christianity. The London press is alarmed at Leninis great military ‘tl'iumpll, which cmula,fin'g Prusslianism, ‘is aiming at world domina-

tion. The danger must be faced. Is the New Zealand Pa,rl'»ialnent going to scour the "Sou‘t‘h Pacific Islanctg in an endeavour ‘to meet it’?