RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3412, 17 February 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA.

POLES PREPARED. ‘. T. WALL AGAINST BOLSHEVIsM_ NO‘FEAR FOR RE’sULT_ LONDON, Feb_ 15_ A special newspaper correspondent writing from Warsaw. states that after consulting the Polish Foreign Office and studying popular opinion he believes that if the Bolshevists attempt a forcible westward penetl.a_ tion they will encounter an s_mpreg_ nable wall. The Poles are cherishing as the national, motto “Equgus with equals, freemen with freemen.” They regard Bolshcvism as essentially -.1 despotism which must be fought for the sake of Polands’ new liberties and the safety of Europe. ' General Pi-lsudski, on being inter, viewed, confirmed the recent reports that the Bolshevists are rapidly pm. paring for a great offensive against the Poles. He remarked: “Neverthe. less the Poles, although inferior in numbers, do not fear the results, as the ‘Reds’ are poor fighters, and internal conditions in Russia are now critical for Soviet supporters. The people are hungry, utterly tired of the war, and embittered through oppression.” N%W BOLSHEVIK PLANS. TO SOVIETISE ALL ASIA. Received 8.55 a..rn. LONDON, Feb. 16. The Times’ Delhi correspondent con--firms the Moscow wireless with reference to the modification of Soviet plans. He learns on excellent authority, that Lenin and Cliic-herin have agreed that internal organisation make% further immediate military efiorts dangerous. They are therefore launching intense propalganda in other countries with the object of affecting armies and populations. Their Eastern programme includes disaflfecting Persia, Afghanistan, India, and China, thus preparing the ground for attack when Russian -1-e;coristi'u§i'ioii is completed eighteen months hence. The Soviet Government is sendingarms and-any munition to Afghanistan and is encouraging the Amir to attack India, expecting that the inevitable defeat and deposition of the Amir will produce anarchical conditions, pstving the way for an ‘Afghan Soviet Republic, which they can use as a jumping-011' place to propagandise and ultinratcly convert the Whole of India to Bolshevism.

BOLSHEVHK CONFERENCE. g . FINANCE BASED ON CRIME. Received 31.25 a.m. ROTTERDAM, Feb. 152 Eight countries were I'epl-esen-ted at the secret Bolshevik Conference, and a central bur-eah has been estaiblished in Holland. The movement is based on great financial support. The" 'é’on—ference aims at gaining leadership in Aworld-Wide strikes, and in supporting any new German revolution. It was decided to support immediate agitation to prevent Allied trade with Russia through Russian. Co-operative Associations, which was regarded as a plot to divide workmen and farmers, and destroy the Soviet monopoly. Among those aa-rested atending the Conference was a woman, disguisedin male attire, named Wyntoop, leader of the Dutch revolutionaries.