BOLSHEVIK RULE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK RULE.

SOME OF ITS EFFECTS. By Talegraph.—Freas Aasn.—Copyright. Rome, Oct» 7, A report of Socialist leaders, who have returned from a visit to Russia, doscribing the result of Bolshevism, says that the peasants derived more advantages than damage from the revolution. On the other hand, the life of the workmen has become worse in the cities, and they have fallen into material misery. The Government was incapable of supplying the minimum of indispensible necessities. Speculation was rampant, and Industrial and commercial organisation had been destroyed and bureaucracy had enormously increased. It was useless to cherish illusions regarding exports, as all transport was disorganised. The Communists number only 600,00& out of a population of 60,000,000, but they were masters of the political and economic machines, The practical results have not answerad to the ideal promises regarding the revolution. The capitalist regime had been destroyed, but nothing had been substituted. The report concludes:— "In the name of humanity all must help these simple people to emerge from | such a miserable situation and, to re- | cognise the fallacy of their simple con- | ception of life." The report is the more significant because it is signed by Laborites who originally were sympathisers with Bolshevism.—Times. DEFENSIVE LEAGUE FORMED. London, Oct. 8. The Helsingfors correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that Finland, Poland, Hungary and Roumania contemplate a defensive alliance against possible Bolshevik aggression. ■lt is rumored at Riga that a great rebellion has broken out in Moscow.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.