File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎364v] (376/1080)

The English frame of mind may be judged by the following extract from
the “ Civil and Military GazetteThe Moplah rising serves as a present
warning to Gandhi not to play with fire. _ The match which lights small heep
of foreign clothing can kindle a conflagration which all the tears of a nation
will he unable to extinguish.
This is the language of a “ hard ” Government.
Alongside the national movement in India is the labour movement in the
industrial centres of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. This is taking only its
first steps on economic soil.
“ Izvestia," published at Tashkent, November 15th, 1921.
THEY HO NOT REPRESENT THE INDIAN NATION.
The Executive Committee of the All-India Congress has adopted a
resolution calling on all neighbouring States not to conclude treaties with the
Anglo-Indian Government and to acknowledge the invalidity of former treaties.
The resolution proves that the Indian Government does not represent the
Indian people and that to conclude treaties merely leads to further enslave
ment of India.
A decision of the All-India Soviet of Professional Unions.
The All-India Soviet of Professional Unions has confirmed the legality
of the resolution of the Khilafat adop ted at Karachi and which called upon
soldiers to leave the Indian Army.
OIL.
Erom the beginning of the year to the 1st October the Turkestan Fufil
Committee has received via Krasnovodsk 13,125,948 poods of oil. (Taking
the average specific gravity of mineral oil at ‘900 and the weight of one gallon
of water as 10 pounds the volume of above in English m easure would be
13,i y 8 q X3 - 6 <> r 53,378,855 36 gallons.—Traws.)
WE ARE READY EOR EVERYTHING
AN ORDER TO THE RED ARMY.
The following question had to be decided during the course of a few
weeks of severe political tension: Was there, or was there not to be peace
with Poland ? Thanks to support by the peace loving perseverance of the
Soviet Government an arrangement has been arrived at. The Polish Govern
ment has been obliged to eject from its territories all Whiteguard bands and
their leaders.
Scarcely had this agreement been ratified by both parties when Poland
flung on to our territories new bands of considerable strength under the general
control of a former Petliurian bandit, Tintinin, who had been sentenced to
banishment from Polish confines.
The unheard of provocative nature of this new onslaught has given the
whole Army a shock and has compelled it to ask itself How long ?
There is no doubt that from the point of view of international law of
bourgeois States this last Whiteguard provocation is a direct challenge to
war.
Inasmuch as the Soviet Republic does not want war it will be in no hurry
to accept the challenge. It opines that the Polish nation will call these
adventurers to order. Nevertheless, the warriors of the Red Army
understand the actual position of affairs, which is: