BOLSHEVISM IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1919, Page 11

BOLSHEVISM IN SOUTH AMERICA.

NEW TROUBLES IN THE CONTINENT OF UNREST. ACTIVITIES OP RED EMISSARIES. News has reached Panama from Nicaragua to the effect that emissaries from the Russian Bolsheviki have arrived in Nicaragua with the intention of making that country headquarters for the Bolshevist propaganda in Central and South America (writes the special correspondent of the Christian Scienca Monitor). Bolshevism has succeeded the German propaganda in these countries with startling promptness and suspicious ease. The disturbed condition in Costa Rica, which has been reflected in great hardships suffered by the laboring classes, hag led to sporadic attempts at outbreaks, which only the stem military government has managed to hold in control. The German population in Salvador and Honduras is strong and highly discontented, and its ranks have been swollen by Germans who left Guatemala because of the strong anti-German attitude of the Government there. In Colombia, President Suarez was elected on the Conservative ticket, and the Liberal opposition to him has begun to take the form of Labor agitation. Some weeks ago a violent outbreak occurred in Bogota. In Ecuador, the party which suffered in the revolution when the late President Alfaro was murdered, is highly discontented, and likely to joifl haads with revolutionary emissaries. In Peru, a section of the public destroyed parts of the Central Railway, burned railway cars and stations, and engaged in hostile demonstrations in many places, last month. Chile and Argentina are the principal hotbeds of ultra-Socialistic propaganda in South America, which is served by numerous anarchistic periodicals.

In every country in South America, except Brazil, there is a group of able and educated people who have suffered from revolutionary activities of late years, who lost their property, and are rijo for any agitation which might enable them to get into power again. South Americans are also much more accustomed to violent methods in changing their Governments than the United States. South and Central American Governments, however, are probably more summarily severe on disturbing foreigners than the United States. General Tinoco, 111 Costa Rica, promptly ships them out of the country, or puts them in gaol. The Colombian people are the most conservative in South America, and Bolshevism will not find much favorable soil there. In the other countries it is probable that the Governments will take their cue largely from the attitude of the United States, although Honduras and Salvador are commonly said to be strongly disposed to sympathise with Mexico, and to be ready to follow the lead of that republic.