BOLSHEVIK THREATS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1919, Page 6

BOLSHEVIK THREATS.

LONDON AND PARIS MUST TREMBLE. Helßingfors, March 3. On March 1, at Petrograd, extensive festivities took place to celebrate the anniversary of the assassination by anarchists in March, 1881, of the Empress Alexander ir, which anniversary coincided with that of the creation of the Red Army. The town was beflagged and illuminated, and the workers were forced to take part in the processions under the threat of the deprivation of food. Before the Winter Palace the garrison inarched past to the number of 30,000. Speaking at an official assembly of the Soviet, Sinovyeff, the President of the Commune, said":— "Our heroic Red Army Is destined to fight not only here in Russia, but also in the streets and squares of London, Paris, and Rome for the great ideal of Communism. Recently, by concentrating a considerable number of troops near the Finnish frontier under the guise of manoeuvres, we have said to all Europe: 'Beware, bourgeoisie, before you touch the Red Lion. You shall not take Petrograd except by passing over our dead bodies.' "Thanks to our efforts, we find ourselves to-day in direct communication with the German Spartaeists, and soon our actions will be co-ordinated. Unfortunately, during the last days of the war Hindenburg succeeded in seizing, on our eastern Prussian frontier, waggons and arms destined for the Red Army; but we shall soon replace them, and then the bourgeoisie of London and Paris will tremble anew." On February 19 there departed from Moscow for Spain, France, and England, via Odessa and Constantinople, a certain Lafarre, a Communist who is known to be a member of the notorious Extraordinary Committee and head of the Propaganda Section. He was accompanied by a woman named Galina Rodenko. Both were furnished with false Swiss passports in the names of George and Elise Trochet. They have been charged to create in Spain a Bolshevik base. I learn that the Foreign Propaganda Section at Moscow were to have expend* up to March 1 300,000,000 roubles (nominally £30,000,000), of which 50,000,000 were for the purposes of encouraging agitation in Ireland. It is stated that the Bolsheviks support financially newspapers in England.