SOVIET PROPAGANDA.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1921, Page 5

SOVIET PROPAGANDA.

ITS WORK. IN ASIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Feb. 4. Commissar Eliawa reported to the Bremen Bolshevik conference on propaganda in Asia and particularly in India. Hatred of England permeates the report. English soldiers at Baku are described' as impudent mercenaries. He looks to the hour when Bolshevism will dispose of them. There will be millions of Asiatic fellow combatants. John Bull already shows his teeth, but is powerless in his tight saddle. We will overthrow him in India. It is expected the Mahometans in Turkeston will adopt Socialism. It is believed with the outward appearance of its adoption they would play the part of a bridge to India. Our network of agitation will gradually spread. To-day it stretches to Afghanistan and thence to North India. At the Samarkand Congress in February, 1920, there were delegates not only from Afghanistan, the Pamirs and Malaya, but from inner India and Ceylon. As a result of the conference we established an active liaison with the whole of India and southern Persia, facilitating direct intercourse with Turkey, Arabia and Egypt. The congress served as the foundation for the League of Eastern Liberation controlling Turkestan and sending emissaries to Mongolia. Mahometan, China and the Punjab. In Samarkand we have the best school for . training propagandists and have turned out in the last nine months of the year 3500 instructors, including 930 Hindus. 4600 Tajiks, 1300 Sarts and Afghan*. The chief attention is paid to the Indian races. Only full con verts are sent to India. The most valuable classes are at Delhi and Benares and are working splendidly under the evp« nf Englishmen at Delhi. We fr.nr<’r-l CO" schools last year and by -’T:-orr’.rf there were 1900 active sub- , Tnembers. £12.000 was collected ar.d fhp regular monthly subscriptions amount to £15.000.