The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-10
IF CHINA TURNS
 BOLSHEvIST
BY LOVAT FRASER.

International Fame, who predicts | the ruin of Europe unless. the AL | lies now make up their minds to 1 stamp out BoIsheyisTn.) | If China could turn Boxer twenty | years ago, may she not turn, Bolshe- vist today? That is the question l which thoughtful people are asking 1 1 themselves.
 The other day Sir George Buchan- an, formerly British Ambassador at Petrograd, said with absolute truth that Lenin, the Tsar without a crown, hoped to retain himself in power with the aid of recruits from China
 Lenin is really doing so already. He depends upon two forces for his safety and authority. One force tconsists of Let's from the Baltic provinces who serve Abdul Hamid.
 The other force consists of low grade Chinese, who are estimated to number 25,ooO.
 Though for obvious reasons there is so far no steady stream of Chinese recruits towards Moscow, yet m en are believed to be Altering through from China Bolshevist agents well supplied with funds are said to be at work on Chinese territory.
 1 The spirit of Asia is instinct with rebellion Just now there is a rift between the Chinese of the North and south, the outcome of ancient dissensions. Yet the Chinese have their delegates in Paris, charged with clear mission. They ask that the territory seized by Germany at Kaiohau shall be restored to them. and they are right. Never was a claim better justified.
 A cardinal defect of the Pairs Conference is that it ignores the in terests and the aspiration of one third of the human race.
 | The population of the globe is reckoned at 1,5OO millions. Of this total, 300 millions or more are Chinese, a homogeneous nation; and over 200 millions are Mohamme dans temporarily divided, but indissolubly knit together by the ties Of religion
 If the Conference leaves China's just claims unsatisfed, it will SOW seed which may bear bitter fruit
 In any case, I am inclined to be- Heve that the danger of the virus of BoIshevism infecting China is real one. I fear it for this simple reason-tFat the leaders of the Red League know their own minds, and the leaders of the Paris League do not.
 It is so incredible that the spirit of Bolshevism might run like whirlwind through the Chinese, whose interests have been disregard ed by the Western World for a hundred years?
 I wonder how many of those who read these words know Budapest If five years ago you had stood on the heights of the old town of Buda, and looked across the Danube at the wonderful panorama of Pest, spread out before you, would you have conceived it possible that Bol- shevism would ever have been en- throned there?
 Yet what happened last week in Budapest is a far stranger thing than the appearance of Bolshevism in China would be.
 Timorous and Divided Councils.
 BoIshevism is eating it's way west ward into Europe and eastward into Asia, because it's course is directed by a single man with great, thOuEh perverted, intellectual qualities, and iron will, and an implacable and l ruthless spirit, and a vision which, if distorted, is neveNheless steadily 1 directed to one supreme end.
 When you have made alletaoin for the exhaustion and apathy of the human soil in which Bolshevism l thrives, when you have talked by l the yard about hunger, you still get back to the fact that the growth of Bolshevism is chiefly due to the | diabolicaIIy clever control Of Lenln
 He has had no match on the AL lied side, because in regard to Bol- sbevisn the councils of the Allies have always been timorous and div ided.
 When you have made allowance
 In this country we have never rightly grappled with the evil thing. We find reputable newspapers and apparently sane politicians still re- lferring to Bolshevism in terms of lveiled approval. Its horrors are lg- nored, it's subversive tendencies dis counted.
 I opened one sheet last week ana found this reading: "Lenin the Peacen,aker." Such a phrase, sure lv. indicates dementia. The only peace which BoIshevisn brings Is the peace of the grave. T,anin's aim is the complete de- S str1,ction of civilization. Russia IS = his footstooI. He knows full well that = he must disseminate his deadly ooc- S trtnes outside Russia until all Europe e 9 is a welter of anarchy, or perish. And P instead of perishing he is in process of succeeding.
 The lapse of Hungary is grave U svroptorn. think we shall be wise | to take the situation there at its face value, and deal with 1t promptly. FIanpiIv this view now appears to l prevail at Paris.
 Hungary's perversion to Bolshevism may be due to mixed motives It may n be true that the Magyar nobles resent , tha contraction of the boundaries Of their country, that the peoples are . dul1ed and resentfuI, that many cross influences are at work. We have to 2 deal with the facts as we find them. The situation is that the policy or inc "sanitary cordon' has temporarily | 1,rolxan down We were to have had a belt of States stretching across E5urope which would have shielded 8 the western nations from Bolshevisrn d For myself, I have never quite un- d derstood how Poland could stand be- d tween the Bolshevists on one side and : the enraged Germans on the other n But that is a minor matter now The 'sanitary cordon" no longer ex- e ;-4. 1,aoa,1Sa orpa piZed BOlSheViSn has