BOLSHEVIK INTENTIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3622, 8 November 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK INTENTIONS.

STATEMENT BY LENIN. WORLD REVOLUTION AIMED AT. 1 j COUNTER-REVOLUTION DENIED, i Received 1.20 p.m. i j N LONDON, Nov 7. Leuin has broken silence for the first time since the Polish reverses. Discussing h'is future plan's will, Moscow sympathisers, he declared his invincible determination to bring about a world revolution. The Reds’ defeat in Poland made a bigger field of operations imperative in order to restore prestige. He intended to attack France and Britain by means of extensive propaganda in North Africa and India. “We shall succeed’’ Lenin exclaimed. “We shall smash the Versailles peace and bring the whole world to our feet.(” The military plans include an immediate effort to crush Wrangel. Lenin added that Poland’s turn would come later. He displayed bitterest hatred towards Poland, but added that Poland was not an unmised evil, oceans.? German hatred of Poland h at} brought Germany to Russia’s side. Germany’s passive resistance to the Versailles Treaty helped the Bolsheviks by keeping Europe in a tate of insecurity. Lenin concluded; “The Germais seek revenge; we seek revolution. Our interests are identical for the time being, but the Germans will become our enemies when the question of new German hegimony arises, and a Communistic Federation arises on the ruins of old Europe.’’ The latest, authenic news from Russia discounts the stories of a counter- I revolution, which were greatly exag-1 gerated. * j

Madame Nadot, widow of a Moscow banker, was included in tie last batch of prisoners returned to France. She says Trotsky's iron discipline !s likely to prevent the collapse of Bolshevism. The army is unpopular and hated, but tie peasants’ indifference and fatalism, and the cringing sexonlty of tie town populations, prevent any large scale opposition from developing. Everyone is compelled, to keep a work book showing hours laboured. If insufficient, the people concerned are compelled to work in scavening, or wood-chopping gangs, or go foodless.