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PUBLIC AND STRIKERS. PEOPLE'S DEFENCE LEAGUE.

IN THE GRIP OF THE BOLSHEVISTS.

HOW RED GUARDE AND BLACK. GUARDS RULE RUSSIA.

[BY A BIANLEY.]

I am one of the fortunate few who have recently cluded the garetting hand of the

A public demonstration at Queen's Hall, London, on February 14th, un animously decided to form a People's Defence League for the purpose of com. bating Bolshevism and safeguarding the people from further attempts to dielo ente the public services. The necting bevist in the Russia si the Bled

National which was convened by

Terror. The people in England have not party.

wit

called for the purpose of yet realised what that terror means und considering what steps should be taken

the causes from which it springs. Bome to protect patriotic workers and the of them is astounded to hear that middle classes from the peril and suffer

9 per cent. of the Russian population are caused by anauthorised trade dis absolutely unti Bolshevist, that Husein

which

is they have taken no part Frigadier-General Page

M.P.. ('ruft, presided, and among those present were Lord Ampthill, Lord and Lady Bard- wick, Mr. William Bonney, Mr. Harold Cox, Men Dacre Fox, Major Alexander. and Mr Francis Francis.

ing

The Chairman said numerous letters bad been reenved expressing sympathy Thu with the objects of the meeting. writers emphasised the point that the time had arrived when people who wers determined to resist disurdet should come gether and make plans for the future He believed in trade union, and collec tive bargaining between masters and melong as everything was carried out in a legitimate manner, but it was absolutely vital that when agreements were arrived at they should be kept, and that society should not be disorganised because some factious people decided to Industrial tear up those agreements. pence was no vitnt that they would go almost any length in order to secure justice to the workers. They wished to ascertain whether the publie was prepar

really ed to organise itself into a

effec The ex- live nuvement for its defence tremists had shown that they were out Lo defy the will of the democracy and to every and tyrannise it. The country bad get to realise that position.

They had in this a deliberate attempt on the part of a section of Labour to profiteer out of the stress of the country by bolding up society. Under their blackmailing effort the extremiste wished to impose any terras on the public, ro gardless of the economic conditions. The movement wae Bolshevistic, and he bind were the secret forces of Ger

hear.)

The result of tany. (Hear, all would be a reproduction here of the state of affaire in Russia. In these cit cumstances Wait and See" policy would be just as disastroue in fighting Bolshevism as it was in fighting Germany during the war. They must meet the Bolshevik propaganda by propaganda of British justice and fair play; meet Bolshevik attacks with counter-attacks: and organise themselves to resists this movement against tic CUBOLTY. great middle classe, which were not much richer than the average skilled miner (Cries of Poorer the great unorganised classes, and patriotic labour. which was the vast majority of un organised labour-all these were the Bret to suffer through strikes. Soldiers and sailors suffered also. Wore all these great fores going to be so chicken heart ed as to take this lying down! If they did they deserved such a fate se the Bolsheviks would decree. (Hear, hear) They must show that they would not be bullied, terrorised, plundered. (Choern)

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MIDDLE-CLAES TRADE UNION.

it.

ruled by an elaborately organised minority.

The millions of illiterate peasants Bis powerless in the bands of the unscrupul ous clique that now dominates all Russia. Throughout the country sporadic riots against the Bolshevists are taking plner, but they are suppressed in blood by the Red Guard merrenaries. The leaders of the terror under Lenin and Trotsky are,

The Bolsheviste have a Jews and Letts. secret service whore head is a merciless omnu, me. Incolevena, acces of he notorious ritzky, who was assass natod a fett months age This lady signs denth warrants with a smile on her face. In the earlier stages of the Red Terrar the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie weza permitted to work for their livelihood. Generals of the cld army sold newspapers and ladies served us waitresses in the public restaurante. Any private occupa lion hae since been forbidden to them two Hol except when recommended by

They are now serfs. Shop- sbevista. keepers were once lowed to yelain their The customern and provide for them. shops are being gradually closed down.

STARVATION

People are dropping down in the streets of Petrograd and Moscow through sheer starvation. BOW a woman pick up a rotten apple and eat it with gusto. Th dustbins are being searched for serages of food.

At a railway station restaurant I was lucky enough to get a wall piece of weat. As soon as I had finished my frugal re- who past an artistueratie-looking nati was standing close by reached for the bone I had left on my plate, and guawed at it like a wild beast.

Daily Ive seen officers arrested in the strects by the Red Guards. As they pain and the inescape Cross populace made the sign of the They knew that these unfortunates were I going to death with a short thrift. heard from a friend in one of the prisons that every day between seventy and hundred officers were led out into the prison yard for execution.

Requisitions are being despatched through the provinces for corn and cattle. sometimes only Of 100 Red Guards sent,

ten return. The ave or

The pesante occa- sionally put up a bloody fight for their harvest and their beasts. for this.

They suffer The Bolshevist Government next time souds 1,000) Red Guards to the resisting village with orders to slay and spare not.

NO SMILES.

Every one in Petrograd is registered, and every house and block of flats in con- Bo-called committee of consist of rolled by poverty, who principally loafers and beggars. At every hour of the night and day terror prevails. Out- side the ranks of the Bolshevists I have not seen a single smiling face since the Red Terror chcked freedom.

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The Concerned, will sell by Public Auction on WEDNES

DAY, April 16th, 1918, at 2.16 FM,

at is Sales Boom USEFUL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS, Comprising:- Blackwood chairs, Teakwood Mirror-door Wardrobes, Chest of Drawers, Clocks Carpets, Bugs, Umbrella Stands, Drawing Boom Suite, Easy Chairs, Overmantles, Dining and Card Tables Single Brass Mounted Iron Bedsteads, Curtains, Bronze It is an old saying that in the kingdem Figures, Desks, Glass and Crookery Ware, of the blind the one-eyed is king. There Knives, Forks, Spoons. Blue and White is considerable reason in this, as there Vasos, Bowls and Plates and a long line of

In the usein Sundries. is in most old sayings. of to-day the loafers control the workers, and the blackguards constitute the Red Guarda, the future of this extraordinary movement whereby thousands hold mil

ions in thrall, Lenin and Trotsky are too wily to sup that this idyllic state for them personally can last long. Their aim is union with the German Spartacist Party, and the Red Flag over both com trics. In this matter the German officers in the Baltic Provinces who are going back Berlinwards are playing into their hands. All these officers are Bolshevista of the Russian breed, and carrying that

back

Germany propaganda Trotsky and Lenin and the Prussian mili tarists entertain the fond hope that this the fundamental truths of economica. will enable them to sustain a new wor

Mr. Harold Cox said a great deal of the present trouble was due to the exist ence among us of too many hard-fisted employers

hear) too many people who did not ses that it was their duty to think of the well-being of their

(heur,

emplu, as well as the magnitude of

mote

their own profits. One such man did harm than hundred fair-minded employers could do good. Much of the general unrest was the outcome of the doctrines of Carl Marx, preached by

A Socialist. every

great plague might be more destructive than a war, but there was something still more destructive and that was mental and moral disease This was Bucinlism, and it had got to fought. We abould appeal for a volun tars army go out and teach people

be

As to

into

on both the German and Russian fronts.

Mr. William Bosses moved a resolu- tion declaring that, in view of the suf-Express. ferings imposed upon all classes of the community during the recent strikes

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A. G. DA ROCHA. AUCTIONEER, SURVEYOR AND GENERAL BROKER.

Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. 2938.

TAVING been Favoured with instrus-

Wardrobes

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HAV been the Procuration Des Missions Etrangères will sell at their a people's defence league should be of the nation were being set on one side Residence. No. 34, Caine fond, on THURS- formed for the

frcalating by a small group who claimed to dotai DAY, April 17th, at 2.30 P.M. Bolshevism and safeguarding the public ante the nation in their own intereste.

A portion of from further attempts to dislocate the Direct action by individuals was treason USEFUL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

AND EFFECTS, public service, and that representative against the democracy. These were the

of all

worked

Comprising socctice of law-abiding citiseng

Iron and Wood Bedsteads, Chairs, Couch and they classes be invited to appoint delegates people who during the war

Overmantels, Piano, all the included almost all to form a committee to draw up the gainst their own country mentiOUS ubjects and to sure the machinery

TERM:-Cash on Delivery. They objectors. Bolshevism out devilled Prue Sundries.

Most of the Bisnism and Kaiserism. necessary to carry out those anos.

Hongkong, April 19th, 1910. desired, said Mr. Bossey, to strengthen soldiers were trade unionists, but how

A or the hands of the Government.

many of them attended their lodges? ganised minority was always in

They

did not go because they were good to tyrangise an unorganised average Britons, and they did not care position majority, and the middle classes from about managing affairs. They were

He was not afraid of The Undersigned have received instruc time immemorial had been the sufferors, sound at heart. because they had never been organised. Bolshevism in this country, as he knewtons from THE CHINESE GOVERNENT SALT REVENDE DEPIITMENT to sell by Public (Hoar, bear.) Thero

various what wеrе

tho patriotism of the manual Auction, methods, by which the public could pro labourers was. The people who were

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organise, to take the place of the men who had helped to foment the strikes April 25th, 1019, at 11 AM at their who struck against the advice of their were a very small minority. What wa accredited leaders.

(Hear, hear.) The

The needed was a Government who realised middle classes should form a trade union the dignity of Government. It was a and go on strike themselves-they bad shame that the Government had not just a good a right to strike as anybody taken the initiative in any great move elec The Germans bad done it in some ments. We taust demand that the Gov-as towns; why should not wel

ernment should hold the enemies of the public in check.

Prebendary Gough, of the British Workora League and the National De Proposing a vote of thanks to the

Mra. Dacro Fox said mocratic Labour Party, said that there chairman, was nothing in the resolution that was Germano-Bolshevik decree issued aftor open to criticism on democratio grounds. the Brest-Litovsk Treaty and circulated No country could be called democratic throughout Rusia, read:

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All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays

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BUTTERFIELD & SVIRE,

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

8.5. "CHEUNG SHING," Arrived Hongkong on April 9th,1919, FROM BOMBAY AND STRAITS.

Consigue of Cargo by the above-named vesal are hereby informed thus their geoda are being landed and placed AT THEIR RIBE in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godewus at Kowloon, where each Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained sa the Goods arə landen..

Optional Goods will be landed herə maless instructions are given to the contrary before 8 hoorn.

Goods not cleared within 8 days, Inolatiog date of arrival, will be subject to rant."

No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in any case whatever.

Damaged packages must be left in the Go- downs for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Surveyors, Mestra, GODDARD & Duralas, at 10 AM. on MONDAYS and THUESDAYS. AD Claims must be presented within ten days of the Steamere arrival hero after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godown.

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Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that they mast produse an Import Permit, signed by the Superintendent of Impacks and Exports Hongkong, before Bills of Lading can be countersigned.

All broken, chafed and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will ba examined on April 15th, 1918, at 10:

All Claim must be presented within a month of the Steamer's arrival hare, after which they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goode have left the Godowns and all Goode remaining undelivered after April 16th, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Inturanse whatever will be effected. Consigneen a requested to send in their Bills of Lading for sounter-signature Immediately. PACIFIC MAIL STEANSHIP COMPANY,

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ia connection with shore Staatser YONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEIL- are hereby informed that their goods, with the exception of Opium, Trowyure and Vainable, are being landed and stored at their risks into the hazardous and/or tækra hazardous Godowns of the "Hongkong and

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No Fire Insurance has been effeótott.

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