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PROFESSOR ATKINSON’S VIEWS. GERMAN PENETRATION. By Telegraph.--Press Aa»n.—Copyright. Sydney, May 4. Professor Atkinson declared that the general policy of the Bolsheviks was as cruel and their conduct of business every whit as inefficient as it had been said to be. As a Government they were far more incompetent and much more addicted to red tape and pettifogging interference than was the Tsarist regime. Speaking o-f the Russo-German pact, reported from Genoa, Professor Atkinson declared it would surprise no one on the spot, for it was openly discussed in Moscow as the obvious line for the Soviet to take when he was there in February. He added that the Germans especially were getting back into Russia. The only relief work the Germans were doing was endeavoring to discover at their laboratory in Moscow a serum against typhus, which was ravaging the country. Describing the utter breakdown of transport, he said trains had always been several days late. He saw one arrive from Turkestan three weeks behind time. It was given up as lost, the assumption being that all aboard had died in a snowstorm. Twenty-five passengers died on the journey, and their bodies were thrown into the snow.
Asked if the Bolsheviks would remain in power, Professor Atkinson said he believed they would so long as they had the Red Army and its rations under their control and are prepared to enter upon one strategic retreat after another, giving up point after point in Communism as they .find it impracticable. He declared that Soviet agents had been, deputed to follow him and refute his statements. He had evidence of this wherever he lectured He would never be allowed back in Russia, simply because he told the truth. LABOR COUNCIL’S CRITICISM. Sydney, May 4. The Labor Council, referring to Professor Atkinson’s interview regarding Russia, says that Mr. Atkinson has joined the ranks of the anti-Bolsheviks, who at the present time are popular. It was not true to say that Russia had renounced Communism and returned to private enterprise.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 May 1922, Page 5
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