TROTSKY'S CHINESE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1919, Page 12

TROTSKY'S CHINESE.

PAST MASTERS IN TORTURE. Probably only Bolshevism, which turns all preconceptions inside out, could make out of the Chinaman a particularly militant warrior (writes Mr. K. Crozier Long, special correspondent of the New York Times in Stockholm). The Chinese, however, now appears as a fierce lighter for (in idea. Trotsky, when ~in Charkow, praised the Chinese as "the most unshrinking of warriors for our cause." The general fitness of the Chinese as paladins of Bolshevism is described in a letter by an Ukrainian landowner, M. Alexis Novosiltsoff, who escaped to Finland after a five weeks 1 flight.. The Chinese," says Novosiltsoff, "were at first very few in tho Soviet armies, but they are increasing, and they even seem to he still dribbling in from Asia, bad as communications are. The Chinese made a compact with the Bolsheviks to do all necessary executing, torturing, and burning, and for this they each got 1000' roubles a month, plus plunder. Many of those Chinese came to Russia in ISIIS, and they know our language and are not at all ignorant, but are mentally very acute. Tliey translate 'Bolshevism' by a Chinese idiom which moans 'When it tallies.' Because of their toughness anil industry, the Chinese arj great favorites of Moscow; also, just as we have our co-operative Associations, so they have secret societies, which keep discipline and make sure that contracts to slay or plunder will he kept. Further, the stories spread about Chinese atrocities are so grim that anti-Soviet forces constantly desert when they hear that Chinese are on the way-

The Chinese are frequently referred to as being employed in wholesale butcheries and the infliction of exquisite torture on Bolshevik victims. M. Novosiltsofl describes the Chinese as business men. "When our native Bolshevik plunders he also wastes and destroys, but tho Chinese marauder preserves. He always lias his sack or his handcart. He is clever enough to keep an oil painting which our Bolsheviks, once they see that it cannot, bo eaten or drunk, would kick to pieces, and so we have well-to-do middle-class Chinese, whom the Bolsheviks tolerate because they are 30 useful." LEADERS OP ANTI-SEMITISM. These useful Chinese ]<ive now a central organisation. Their first congress met at Petrograd at the end of last year, and pronounced for collaboration with the chief of the Soviet's. Asiatic Department in 11 general campaign of propaganda in China. Soon afterwards their dictator, Djan-jui-Chuan, v/lm administered Chinese law to his compatriots and even ordered the shooting of Chinese offenders, was murdered by someone unknown. And finally the versatile Chinese turned up as leaders of anti-Semitism in the Bolshcvised part of the Ukraine. Bolshevism, though often described as Jewish and not Russian, does not shrink from anti-Semitism when that pays, and at Charkow, even during the stay of the Jewish Trotsky, the Bolsheviks incited the submerged hungry masses against the "bourgeois" Jews. The Chinese also attacked the Jews and plundered a few stores, end they were negotiating a very suspicious deal with the anti-.lewisU Jilack Hundred when they were ordered to march against Poltava and Kieff.