File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎513r] (673/1080)

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The Fight with Cholera.
Semashko, the National Komissar lor Health, notifies that the cholera in the Republic is
pursuing a diversified course. It was raging in a whole series of localities at the beginning of
summer but is now subsiding.
Rostov-on- the-Don. —At one time the number of cases of cholera was reckoned at several
hundreds a day, now it has fallen to tens, even to unity.
The English Delegation.
On Sunday, the 31 st July, the English delegation arrived in Moscow. At its head is the foun
der of Anglo-Russian commercial reciprocity, Robert Hodgson.
The measures to be taken by the British Government were to be explained on the following
Friday.
They fear the Communists.
The Legal Commission of the Yugo-Slav Parliament has adopted a scheme of extraordinary
legislation against Communists. Agreeably to this all Communist propaganda, all activities
directed against a violent change in the existing rule and order in the State and all co-operation
to promote such change, will be punished with death. Those participating will do so at their
peril.
An open confession.
A Latvian paper confesses that the legalization of Communists would immediately connote
the death of Social Democracy.
Hungarian Worlmen awake.
Vienna. August 3rd .—Of late the Hungarian professional movement has grown consi
derably in strength. Despite the white terror, the workmen are organizing labour meetings.
Help from the World's Proletariat.
As a result of the establishment of the German Communist party and of Independent Social
Democrats, the German working men have commenced a collection of the fruits of self-denial
and self-sacrifice for the benefit of the starving people of Russia.
, The working men of America are amalgamating to afford assistance to Soviet Russia. An
official iournal will be published for propaganda in promoting help. The whole of the Czecho
slovak Labour Party has formed a Moscow Commission whose task will be one of organizing a
Relief Fund. All workmen of Czecho-Slovakia will work one day of the week for the benefit of
this fund. In France syndicates of peasant labourers in the Department of the Seme will collect
subscriptions for the starving people of Russia and in this may be found a proof of proletarian
solidarity.
(Note.—It will be seen in the above that there is no reference to England’s activities in assisting Lussia to
nmbat hunsrer and disease Although the Bolshevik press of Turkestan and I ran'scaspia abstains fiom
Sve hosX toward Britain, it°studiously avoids all sentiments which might educate its public in pro-
Sritish proclivities and tendencies. Thus the liberality of British decrees inaugurating commercial reciprocity,
he recoirition of the Soviet as the de facto Government of Russia, the various decrees m British courtsm
avour oESoviet suits, earn no acknowledgment of generosity. Each and e^ry such m haded with acckmauon
is another victory for Soviet Russia, as another defeat for a bourgeois and ImperwJist poi er. g
lever had a more implacable enemy than she has in the Communist Government in Moscow. )
v Fruitless labour.
Rxga.—L ately the French bourgeois press has strongly incited the British government
an anti-Soviet intervention. L'Humanite seeks to frighten it with the strength «
riet Russia in the East, in Persia, Afghanistan, and India, and informs it that _
ling Warsaw and Bucharest against Russia, furnishing them with war aeroplanes and m )
C6S*
The. course of cholera in Tashkent.
August 4th —
Cases
Admitted
Convalescent
Died
Remaining ..
August 5th—
Cases
Admitted
Convalescent
Died
Remaining .. . • .. »
The figure in brackets are men of the Red Army.
167 (27).
32 (2); in the old
town 12.
15
13(2)
171 (27)
171 (27)
26 (4)
16 (1)
10
171 (30)