BOLSBEVISM SWEEPING
WESTWARDS.
THE DANGER TO BE CONFRONTED
Dr. Constantine Brown acted as special correspondent of the Daily Chronicle in a tour of journalistic investigation which led him frous Turkey to Rumania and Bouthern Russia, and thence to the chief centres Bolshevik activities in
of done with the Bolshevik gary. menace in Hungary, he says:-
The wave of Balshevism is slowly but Old-time westwards. political and before its advante and
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSUAR, JUNE 578, 18
rest of the world may go, bang," and that he will be well content if he achieves by his own peculiar methods, the com pleto political and social liberation of Hungary...
BĄKOWSKY THI VIREBRAND,
Join us, free France, and help to make possible the Brotherhood of the Workers of the World" was the pith of the Soviet plea dropped from the sky.
No one more than the Bolsheviks realise the value of propaganda and the power Hence of that very useful agent-gold.
Rumania was to have pas slice of Hun. of and, works for the complete Boris they are collectors, of bullion on an extan- investigations as to the best WES of assist local commitsees, who would be in
Barely social institutions crumble the Hungarian sense) than they were.
the plains
and now we Vienna the gater that the dreaded Bed Plague triumphant in Germany
*is
The complete acceptance by Hungary of the communistic doctrines of Lenin and Trotsky must have staggered a won and conventional Western Europe. dering
Aarst sight the establishment of & and the Soviet Republic in Hungary adhesion of the whole people from army commanders to peasants, to Bolshevik institutions, would seem inexplicable.
But there are two underlying cause which contributed to this result.
I
In Hela Kun, the present Foreign Com missary of the Hungarian Soviet Repub lic, and in Dr. Rakowsky, a renegade Rumanian and a one-time German agent,
accomplices. Rumanina and
These are the two men with whom Gen eral Smuts discussed the basis of Agreement Budapest
in
IL
sive scale.
BURIED GOLD.
'On Turkey coming into the war the
work done has resulted
our
From the
We
estimated
could di that
an average of
They
of
and general support from the put mot afford, not to employ the Rakowsky was always a noted political money-changers of the Turkish capital funds and which now appeals.
theponse: CCXPF every promptly buried their gold to prevent it lior and programme of the organ\ -per cent of their normal capacity.
him its
4"
to
being commandeered by the Government. Now it is being dug up again.
hich the
which
convert
could on
volun
Among the AID FOR DISABLED MEN
conditions of the district. dikerent projects suggested were affore HUNGARIAN PATHIOTISM, KA
PROPOSED LAND SETTLEMENTStation, nurseries, bulb farms, standard Political discontent was bred because
ed furnitura, glass-blowing and varias no Hungarian worthy of the name, be be
Ever since 1915 a committee, which owed other trades that had been chiefly in the The working administered Sole of peasant, would stand idly by
settlements was to be and see his country dismembered by a
its inception to Ms. Thomas H. Mawson, bands of enemy countries has been engaged in making preliminary ip body of eminent and unpractical idealists
Rakowsky, on the other hand, dreams
ing the man brood in the formation London
wars. The touch with the central organisation in
The scheme was to be a part... Paris gathered roand a Conference table
I found that their chief source of"sup ern Europa. He is pledged to carry the gurian territory and Serbia another subjugation of South-Eastern and West-
for Partially Disabled Soldiers and nar a training organisation.
which is already influentially national point of view Sailors Daring my recent tour though Hungary banner of Bolshevism in triumph from ply, singular as it may appear, was Con- of a body named "Industrial Settlements manent one, and was neither neuralive
abled, for it was ++ Our i was impressed by the bold and per the Transylvanian Alps to the Danube stantinople. fervid
delta, and from Budapest to Paris. patriotism of the people.
is their motto...
lic. A meeting to discuss the.
100,000 men to-day (in country before all
They are trener nationalists
unquestionably firebrand, and is **wholehugger Bora a Bulgarian, he
was held at Claridge's Hotel on April
be £7,500,000. in the Lord when yoked to the lumbering chariot of became violently anti-Rumanian ban
who, was Queenborough, are swallowed up.
powerful hope to provide for the necessities of During my wanderings in Pers, the it has passed to the Dual Kingdom; they ever kept alive Bulgaria was beaten in the Balkan war
to the society' From the Bussian; it is already at the
principle of self-determination.
of and his native town passed under the European quarter of Constantinople, 1 list of supporters, which included the disable when the Government and has happened! Despairing
windows of the money country's foremost admirals and
of the Meathop Flata near Grange-over-Bands, fearn
finding any other remedy Karolyi has Ruthanian flag.
Arrested as a German spy, he Bolshevik in the hope of preserv
was full of Turkish, French, and Englis representatives of the Church and rais, tary effort supplemented each other.
House of Lords and House of Commons, a survey for reclamation purposes was Then be
The most lamentable part of the busi They were engaged, he said in no charity. being carried out by the Board of Agrient- "the ing his country intact. He connived at rescued from prison in. Rumania by Bus coined gold. the Revolution while to the outward sinn revolutionary soldiers.
ture, and after its proposed reclamation ness in that Bolshevik, agents are buring Their object was to establish a central or plot for removing engineered
be handed over to their area would Entente world be professed himself to be
to. ganisation for settlement schemes, It it in large quantities, the current rate of and his Consort. Romanian King
would be in the nature of a clearing so Rakowsky slipped over the exchange being about 12 Russian roubles failed, powerless to resist it.
it into a nursery and hulb farm and bouse,
for that purpose a sum of atorganisation, and it was intended Rumanian frontier and became Bolshevist for a 20-frame pics of this kind goes bou
at Odessa, and
An extensive
least £6,000 was needed, and it ought to The success of the society had begun, and be easily raised if the High Commissioner
I at work while another was ready to Minister
so here, in the open and made to the Russian Soviet Governments after on, as far as I could see no attempt was
right lines. were running on the public saw they two local committees were already active stap it. appointed
luable
gifts of land and option market al Pera, the Allies, by their in
seemed to him important that there should start. Hungary.
Of the two men. this Hungarian and action, are helping to fill the depleted be some central bureau directing volun had been made, and if the public sup the country, and there ported the society as it deserved there tary efforts all over the Bulgarian banded together for the pull treasure chest of their enemies and supply
through it in would soon be other schemes under way. would be down of the old established order of them with the wherewithal to wage war
Breater ing
heat. (Hear, humanity.
dealing things, Hakowsky is the more unscrupul ous he has something of Lenin's iron
ment except in a suitable place near will and his cold and relentless deter
It was, not intended to form any settle minati
combating the snomies of the
town or village, where the men could go for their recreation, and where they could and their children to school. Further, it was hoped that houses would be built, which would make the men comfortable in be able to do would be remunerative and every way, and that the work they would help to awell the trade of the country. NATIONAL VALUE OF THE DISABLED.."!
intentions Mr. Mawson outlined the and hopes of the organisation. Its imme diste work, was the collection of funds for the effective support of their efforts in London and also for the promotion of Their "policy district and county committees for estab lishing local settlements, dustrial settlements for disabled Service men in any district where a suitable open. Places would be ing. presented itself. chosen on main lines of communication; governed by the requirements and local
..
ORGANISED MOVEMENT. **** One is that Western statesmen have never fully realised the magnitude nor possibilities of the Bolshevik movement. Another is that apathy and indifference contempt
if you like, have characterised tlin
attitude of the Batente "physicians
of this dread disente of in the
the
it
Bo
is highly organised: behind brains and driving force. It has well-defined aims and ambitions, and marches straight towards its objective over the ruins of kingdoms and institu. tions
All of its lenders, and especially these in Hungary, are not the wise-eyed, long
WHO BELL KUN ĻAU
For a more thorough understanding of the Hungarian Soviet movement it is necessary to know something of the two men who stand behind it.
Bela Kun was formerly a journalist on newspaper. While the staff of a Budapest new peting as war correspondert in Galicia he was captured by the Russians, and was
1
wards
4.
in
COUNTRY NOT STARVING.
It is a gross error to suppose that the Hungarian Soviets are hampered in their Herein lies at ones plier er ein Ton X, BL There he appears to have turned to Bolaria, of Bength and their danger to:
shevism & easy step, perhaps, for a man who was always noted for bis extrem Socialistic views.
on
The gold thus obtained in Constantino ple is sent to Odessa, and thence to Soviet centres in Russia and Bungars
Little wonder that the forces of dis order and anarchy are, winning every- where !
TERRITORIALS' WAR CASUALTIES.
haired, unkempt, noizy-voiced individuals to preach the Ro. and set to work land. I saw focks and berds in abundance, Territorial Force on July 1st, 1914, ex-
caricatured in the comic press.
In Hungary aur policy actively uided the development of Bolshevism. For in- stance. the Hungarian army was never
On his release he made his way back to his native
of Communism, and pave the way for the establishment of a Soviet Republic,
to
He is a man of education and a certain culture, and
disarmed following the signing of the fess the and the zealots who pro
armistice.
Here was a military disciplined force, ready to strike when the opportunity ready to hand and ripe for any mischief, arose, and it was not long in presenting itself.
N.
Y. EVENING SUN.
To judge by the enthusiasm of last aight's audience at the opening of ** My dramatized Four Years in Germany." from Ambassador Gerard's book, the film It was an en- is going to be a success. joyable experience to be at the Knicker- bocker for the opening, just to partici pate in the patriotic demonstration if for another reason.
great deal of skill is used is pre- senting the episodes from Mr. Gerarde experience during his four years za Am- bassador to Germany.
The real emotional appeal of the piece comes after & scene, in which Mr. Gerard gets his passport, America won't fight and von Jagow 8379 aneering on a number of scenes tell- ing of America's participation in the war are shown as an answer to Germany BLOCK. Last night's audience showed a Men and high pitch of onthusiasm. women clapped their hands until they were sure and shouted until their throats were boarse.
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
It is a plain statement of facts, by Ambassador James W. Gerard. It is dignified and impressive, and the things which are shown on the screen, actual scenes, will do more to rouse the thought less to action than a million reels of with their big-eyed quasi-patriotic films. Belgian maidens and their bestial Boche.
Such a picture is bound to make one pause, and it is probable that every man who leaves the theatre feels that he hasn't even a right to the clothes he is
wearing
The prisoners of war are starving and going mad. They are beaten, and tor- tured and interned with Russians suffer ing from typhus. The German prisoners of war are also shown. Their treatment is quite different presumably because their jailers lack "Kultur.
NEW YORK HERALD.
"My Four Years in Germany," mean
creed of Lenin and "mode Trotsky would be classed as a rate."
His political outlook at present does hot take him beyond the confines of Hun gary. He proclaims that at present and
their own the rest of Europe.
Hungary
is not starving. Travelling through the country on my way to Eng on the Hungarian plains
Food
supplies are plentiful. The Hun- garian army is equipped and ready for war, and it has made common cause with
Basher1nition.
It has artillery, aero
the nes
Mr. Churchill (Secretary for War) in written reply to a question by Colonel Hall Walker states: The strength of the aluding officers and permanent staff, was 255,864, and the number of recruits, taken between that date and June 30th, 1916, was 853,999. As regards casualties, the igures are subject to revision, and at tached men not belonging to the Terri torial Force, but the latest figures cover- ing the whole period of the war, and
with Goat departments.
who has been engaged in educa Sergeant Major Tozeland, Royal Fusi- tional work in the military hospitais, said the great fear of partially-disabled men was that in their condition they would Dot be physically fit to stand up against the fierce competition of these times
welcomed would, if fully understood. Such. s. scheme as had been put forward by them, but they must be convinced that in the settlements they would retain their individuality and the privacy of their homes. There should not be the slightest The schette hint of communal life. gleamed like a star of hope to disabled men, who dreaded unemployment and the Mrs. Bolford, who has been identified prospect of life with their families in slums
en, at Rockampton, urged that those who had lost both legs above the knee should be brought together in two or three special settlements, where one of the industries ficial limos.
before my arrival at Szegedin tent they probably include some at was to further the establishment of in- -with the work for disabled men carried
The Soviet aeroplanes few over and dropped propaganda leaßets among the soldiers
of the French army of occupation. The excluding officers, are:-Killed. 115,576;
total 341.245.
grammar wLS
as far as he is personally concerned, the i of the less execrable, bu, the meaning/Filed wounded, and missing, 541.848; and the work of each, settlement would be carried on should be that of making arti-
only
What
was clear:
The Press
Press Said
AMBASSADOR JAMES W. GERARD'S
"My Four Years in Germany"
FOLLOWING ITS OPENING MARCH 10th, 1918,
-AT THE-
Knickerbocker
Theatre
NEW YORK
MIRROR. EXHIBITORS:
TRADE
NEW YORK EVENING
GLOBE.
The screen rersion of Ambassador- Gerard's My Four Years in Germany,' had its first public presentation at the Knickerbocker Theatre last night. The picture begins with the Zabern incident and ends with the Ambassador asking for" bis. passports.
Those who read the book will find that the main incidents of the story of the intrigue and German perfidy are shown with lifelike detail. The chief charac- ters in this great world drama are drawn with truth, and the story is held to- gether with fine touches of the art of picture making. There are shown nu- merous audiences with the Kaiser, and. real German bluster is seen in the ̈ war lord's threat to the ambassador that
After this war Germany will stand. no nonsense from the United States." There is also pictured the Teutonic boast that America won't fight boast that has been made childish by the present. appearance of bundreds of thousands of American soldiers in France..
Other pictures shown from the book in- clude Germany's treatment of prisoners of war, the effort to bottle up the British feet, which wts frustrated through in- formation furnished by Mr. Gerard; the brutality of the Germans toward the women and children of Belgium and Northern France, and the attitude of the German people toward their Government. At no time is it necessary to resort to fiction to bring out the German character and to show the effort of the Kaiser to dominate the world.
The picture undoubtedly will have a great influence upon all those who see it, The last reel is an answer to the and should be a great factor in stirring Germani The Americans won't fight," and a picturization of Mr. Gerard's "p the people of this country to look our war conditions squarely in the face. They reply: They won't eh!" Scene after will have a chance to see pictured many scene shows the US troops training, things that do not greatly impress when marching and the West Point cadets in im merely on the printed page. Am- compared to the Kaiser's finest. hussars who saw the picture at its first public their wonderful machine like parade, bussador Gerard, who was among those with their "goose-step."
presentation, made a short address. NEW YORK EVENING "MAIL.
ing James W. Gerard's record of his how America is getting ready to fight, the success is best illustrated by could view this picture and not be cannot be given it.
ambassadorship in Berlin, a photoplay
of patriotic value and artistic import-
in the Knickerbocker
at such enter
8 to calls from the spectators made
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NEW
YORK
AMERICAN.
MOTION
PICTURE
NEWS.
Severa, meetings between Mr. Gerard DRAMATIC.
REVIEW. which the In his book, "My Four Years in Ger and the Kaiser were shown on the screen,
With the number of so-called "War including the interview in Kaiser declared be would stand no mon many, Ambassador James W. Gerard sense from America after the war. How gave to the English-speaking world a it was planned in Berlin to sink the document of vital import and unusual pics ellent and are one or two of the Germans finally interest, primarul do anhing else but faked and false it is refreshing, to say showing the reasons them excellent, and the others so palpably
agreed
to ruthless submarine why Amerien
how they finally gave Mr. go to war. The motion. The outstanding the rehat, to view one like "My Four
to screen in Germany.
The picture will be a box-office winner Gerard six hours notice of they incidents of the book
That the result
How anyone, no race or creed barred, for any exhibitor and too much praise sumption of ruthless warfare, how they
film received on the thrilled to the very core is beyond con- reception the told him America would not fight, and is a
Occasion of the opening performance of
Former Ambassador James W. Gerard's were shown graphically.
The picture should prove a valuable an indefinite engagement at the Knickerception. It is a truly wonderful picturi
bocker Theatre.
A fairly typical andi-zation of events, historically true, taken
My Four Years in Germany" had its ence cheered, shouted and applauded. from the book of the same name, by
first presentation as a photoplay last ance, was received last night upon its piece of American propaganda.
night at the Knickerbocker Theatre. The Those present were not displaying emo Ambassador James W. Gerard, and presentation
tional hysteria either. It was genuinely visualized in a manner both interesting
most significant occurrence of the even- stirred enthusiasm, overpowering and and entertaining.
Ambassador James W. Gerard's widely-ing was the enthusiasm which greeted uncontrollable.
The photography is perfect, the interior settings lifelike to the minutest detail, read book," My Four Years in Gel-interpolated pictures of United States the exteriors well chosen and the acting many," relating his experiences as repre-troops, an enthusiasm which "gathered S. Jay Kaufman lo; of the principals and entire cast beyond sentative of the United States Govern force until the theatre was ringing with
criticism...
ment in the centre of Prussianism, makes cheers. NEW YORK GLOBE. The picturized version of My Four
The portrayal of the Kaiser and his a
The photoplay loses no "opportunity to stirring patriotic propaganda s Years. in Germany, adapted from the book of the same name by former Am-
Add My Four Years in Germany" to staff, the treatment accorded the Bussian rendered into film form by Charles A. impress the spectator with the supposi bassador Gerard, was shown last evening for the first time on the screen of the the pictures that tiny list of them and English prisoners by the Germans; Logue, who prepared a scenario, and by tion that the Sarajevo incident, was nota that are memorable Last night former the capturing and deportation of the William Nigh, who directed. Last Sun-accidental, but coolly and carefully Knickerbocker Theatre.
Two of the most interesting scenes of Closely following the printed, revela. Ambassador Gerard's book was flasbed Belgian women, the killing of the" old day night at the Knickerbocker Theatre planned by the German emperor and his. tions made by Mr Gerard the photo-po a screen at the Knickerbocker Theatre and the young; the shooting of other when the film received its premier pre- adviser. drama is intensely clear-cut and impres before a magnificent audience-motors prisoners en route to the prison camps sentation, there was hardly a minute when sive The audience sat. literally on the round to Ninth Avenue and not a person to avoid feeding them; all these and more the hole did not ring with applause that the picture are Mr. Gerard's visit to the edge of the chairs, absorbed in the un- left the theatre until the end. Which end are shown in a manner too lifelike per turned into cheers. All the wily diplo prisoners' camp at Wittenberg and that States through its presentation, all the at first refused to supply Mr. Gerard NEW YORK WORLD. folding of this diplomatie drama. In- The word from Mr. Gerard himself. hans, but ur li hemen er hat can't but macy with which the heads of the German in which he is given his passports. The terest was so intense, that even applause The value of the picture is obvious. But bring the war "home" those who view nation sought to deceive the United German Government, it will be recalled.
from the movie standpoint it is of more this picture.
The war with all its attending horrors atrocities witnessed by Mr. Gerard, such and his official family with passports was checked..
Pictures of German court life, in the value because in the facts it puts a great A moving pictura version of "My
women, perpetrated without regard for boats interned at. American piers. Mr. Four Years in Germany" the book pub, opening welk stowed the Kaiser. Grown slamp into the atrocious stories usually cannot appear pleasing to a beholder, the mistreatment of the English pris until he had signed an agreement whereby lished by Former Ambassador Gerard Prince and the German war lords. The filmed. What's more, no compromiss is but it is interesting to learn at first hand opers, the deportation of helpless Belgian America promised to release German shortly after his return from Berlin was events lending up to the break between made. Each fact, youched for by, Mr just what our boys" are going up aho nickerbocker Theatre.
before a packed house last night this country and Germany and. Ambas Gerard was done by William Nigh in against, and the masterly struggle of one any sense of international law these and Gerard's refusal, to sign on the dotted
sador
Gerard a request for passports, thorough fashion, In this audience were of them who "promised dad I'd get a large assortment of views of Allied line and his statement that before doing getx" his six Germans, one after for the man who goes into the theatre freezes over supplied one of the exciting The political made thrilling material. In the end the people ons doesn't often see at movie six of om." is realistic in the extreme troops on the march make capital seeing so he would stay in Germany until Hell events from the tice when the German answer was given to Germany's taunt:Brat nights Among them Marshal Me He
America Won't fight by showing
Happlauded the scene wildly. comrade from the last." Govertiment, convinced that a war was
scenes of the new American army and Carthy who said: "I want to see it the other and winds up by rescuing a ready to have his emotions stirred against incidents of the evening. The audience necessary to save militarism, brought of the conflict, up to the present day.
Theatre with an outburst of applause and cheering unprecedented tainments.
Mr. Gorard, the a last American Ambas
at Berlin, was present, and in address at the close of the pre- sentation, in which he referred to sident Wilson as the one man in the world who can bring the war to a success- für end.
The photoplay is an adaptation of Mr. Gerard's book of the same title, and awing to the elaborate care exercised in casting and production in every detail, the narrative becomes intensely drama tic whed pictured on the screen.
'in
navy.
again"
&
on Saturday & Showing on
Usual Prices.
باید دید
the common enemy,
Monday, June 7th & 9th, at the Theatre Royat.
Booking at Montric's.