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APPENDIX I.
** IzVESTIA,” PUBLISHED IN ASKHABAD, AUGUST 24TH, 1921.
The Terror in Vladivostok.
Chita, A* gust 5V —The Merkiulov Officers’ Government has embarked on a policy of cruel
terrorism directed against the labouring classes who are pursuing the methods of a peaceful strike.
An epidemic of requisitions is upon the community, innocent people are being arrested, work
men’s dwellings are being wrecked, and whole series of work people from among those on strike
has been banished to Manchuria for the specialists’ echelons there.
This terrorism has provoked the working people to retaliatory acts of terrorism—motor
busses are subjected to attacks, militiamen are killed, bombs thrown at the electric power
station, there is rifle fire in the streets, barricades of barbed wire are erected, telegraph posts
and the permanent way of the railway destroyed, and the wrecking of goods and mail trains
organized. The strikers under pressure of repressive acts are taking to the hills. Merkiulov’s
activities have for their object the provocation of the working classes and the intervention by
Japanese troops, which Japan will comply with only too willingly.
India forestalls them.
Kabul 7th. In connection with the Greek attack on Turkey, incited thereto by the Entente,
the Mussulman Conference in India has demanded from England that the war against the
Angora Government be stopped, threatening otherwise to proclaim India an independent Republic
and to hoist the national flag.
India's fight with Imperialism.
Kabul, 13th. —A widespread boycott of foreign clothing is going in India in which the whole
popuTatioip "From beggars to merchants is participating. A boycott of the forthcoming visit of
the English heir apparent is also being organized.
Everywhere the apparition of Bolshevism.
In Northern Bessarabia a determined peasants’ and workmen’s revolution has broken out.
The Roumanian Govermnent even notifies that Red detachments are operating there.
Dantiig.
All working men of the German port of Dantzig have determined to carry out a twenty-
four hour strike. This strike centres round the overthrow of the existing Government.
W rang el.
Wran^el is conducting pourparlers with an ecclesiastical circle with a view to transferring
his army to the care of foreign ecclesiastical interests.
Murmansk—the starving.
On the 10th August a day for the help of the starving was announced in the Murmansk.
The entire catch of fish on that day will Be offered for the use of the Commission for the Relief
of the Starving.
In place of bread—a stone.
The Russian Whiteguard press abroad has met the news of our great national destitution
with all the delight of a class enemy.
In articles under flaring headlines and flamboyant expression it has announced the speedy
downfall of Bolshevism and the second coming of the bourgeoisie. The renegade white jour
nalists have not spared their shrill voices, thereby wearing themselves out with prophecy.
At a banquet given in honour of the future liberation of Russia those Tzars of famine, the
multi-millionaire Ryabushinski {vide Intelligence Summary 30, Appendix I, page iiii, last line
et mi.) and the arch-Menshevik Burtzev, touchingly embracing, prochdmed the unity of “ All
the Russians.”
That night the notorious Jack the Ripper of Soviet Russia, that “ expert in explosives,”
the bandit Savinkov, sweated long over the composition of his new instructions for his innumer
able “ sappers,” lined up with their pastrycooks’swords beneath our factories, mills, and bridges.
That day the Russian Whiteguard crew could give each other the Easter kiss in their Parisian,
Viennese or Berlin pothouses and beneath the joyful sounds of the foreign radio. Thus the
Great Powers, the guardians of our Russian bourgeoisie danced to the measure of these events
while our merchants smiled across their broad faces. Yet o i the thin diplomatists’ physiogno
mies of Briand, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau in the words of Pushkin “ nothing was reflected.”