INDIA THE GOAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1919, Page 5

INDIA THE GOAL.

NEW BOLSHEVIK PLANS, j ASIA THREATENED. By Teleeranh.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 15, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 13. Authoritative disclosures foreshadow the possibility of the Bolsheviks ultimately abandoning European Russia, and establishing themselves in the heart of Middle Asia.

The disclosures point out that the Bolsheviks hold a large part of Transcaspia and Central Asia, and are about to attack Krasnovodsk, on the Eastern Caspian shores.

Furthermore, they are establishing intimate relations with Afghanistan, and their emissaries at Kabul are advocating an attack on Britain through India. It is reported that hundreds of Hindus have been trained in Bolshevik propaganda at Moscow, and some are alreday journeying to India, supplied with considerable Bolshevik gold. The Times, in a leader, points out that Deniken and Koltchak are fighting the Empire's battle, because, in the event of their defeat, the Soviet armies could ba diverted to Afghanistan with a view to attacking India. The Times expresses the opinion that the consequences of defeat would soon be felt on the Indian frontier. Meanwhile the Bolsheviks are closely negotiating with the Turkish rebel General Mustapha Kemal, in Asia Minor, and are supplying funds to the Young Turks, inciting Georgia, and the mushroom Mohammedan Republic of Aterbaijan to ally themselves with the Turkish revolutionaries.—Times SerI vice.