File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎441r] (529/1080)

the cC soutenirs ” of Bucharest (reference not understood) fly from the blows of
peasents* flails ?
For three years of ceaseless civil war the TJkrain peasant experienced the
delights of dominion by landlords who had returned to their nesting places
under cover of the bayonets of Whiteguards and foreigners.
The grievous times of the German occupation, of Denikin’s plunder and
Petliura’s spoliation are still far from forgotten by the peasants of the Ukrain.
Nothing has happened since then to awake in their hearts sympathy for
yesterday’s hated enemies. On the contrary, the Soviet Government’s orienta
tion towards a new domestic policy is annulling to a considerable degree all
those asperities of the past which provoked discontent among vast masses of
peasants towards the Workmen’s and Peasants’ Government.
Rumania will have to conquer the Ukrain. And that is not going to be
so easy as some cf the Entente diplomatists think. The peasant of the Ukrain
will defend every span of his native land with that heroic manhood which
Denikin’s General, the Hetman Skoropadski, Baron Wrangel, and other
unlucky bourgeois landlord strategists of the counter-revolution know so well.
That is one side of the picture. The other side will show there is no lack
of powder in the flask. The working class will have to suffer greatly from
hunger, cold, and other wants. Nevertheless, they clearly realise that the
capitalist-landlords are preparing nothing for them except a hangman’s noose
and that the re-establishment of a bourgeois constitution means for them a
pitiless slavery for many, many, years.
They have no desire for this slavery and therefore will fight against
counter-revolution wherever it appears.
Taken all together, there is little chance of victory for the Rumanian
man-eaters. The adventure hatched out by them is doomed to ignominious
defeat. Of that there can be no doubt. Nevertheless, every workman, every
peasant, must look vigilantly towards the west, must carefully follow the
movements of the enemy, must always be prepared to give a decisive resistance,
to the whole insolent gang of trespassers.
li Izvestia,” published at Tashkent, September 9th, 1921.
The English are Harping on Concord.
We give space here to information received from Simla—the residence of
the Anglo-Indian Government—which is very characteristic of the latter day
policy of the English in India who are striving to arrive at an agreement with
the leaders of the Indian National movement and thereby to break up the
struggle a outrance of the Indian Nationalists for independence.
The information is as follows :—
“ A Committee of the Indian Army under Lord Rawlinson as President,
is occupied with the collection of evidence from individuals who
have demanded the gradual Indianization of the Indian Army and
the control of the military budget. An attempt has been made to
invite certain leaders of the Nationalists, including Gandhi, Das*
and Lala Lajpat Rai, in order to discuss these questions with them,
but Gandhi has declined the offer and writes from Bombay that he*
a future boy cotter, cannot appear on the Committee.”
“ Tzvestia,*published at Tashkent, September 11th, 1921.
Class Justice.
English courts are conducted in the interests of the wealthy. In No o4
of the “ Bombay Chronicle ” the following appears : “ Despite sundry innova
tions justice becomes dearer every day and to such a degree that the poor are
practically deprived of the power to appeal to the courts. These exist only for