The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-08
BY KARL RADEK.

bourgeois press can lie, and we naQ
imagined that there could be no fur
Their surprises In store for US in this
line. But. when daily war bulletins
appeared in foreign newspapers dur
ing the two weeks ending September
IL, with reports on the fall of Tiflis,
Batum, ETC., and on bloody struggles
in Baku, ETC., we began to ask what
could be the meaning of all this.
There are foreigners in Tifis, there
are foreign consuls in residence there,
we are no longer living in times of
Intervention and blockade, when mo-
body abroad was IN position to judge
of the extent Of their mendacity. But
at last, on September Is, the so-called
Georgian embassy in Paris announced
to the world that the great rising of
the Georgian people was over. The
Daily Telegraph" which had taken
active part in the propagation Of all
these lies as to an extensive insurrec-
ton, now publishes an article EMIT
led: "Treachery and prevocation,"
which destroys the tissue of lies main
tanned by the bourgeois press up to
this date. The article is however, in
itself fresh fight Of invention. The
organ Of the English foreign Office
writes to the following effect.
A Tissue Of Lies.
''The events in Caucasia are typical
for conditions in Soviet Russia, and
for Soviet methods. The information
which we have now received from
trustworthy sources shows that the
news on the success of the rising in
Georgia has been exaggerated, and
that the Bolshevizi themselves have
spread this false news %. liver since
the independence of the Georgian re-
public was annihilated by the Red
Army, Moscow has been expecting the
day to come on which Georgia would
rise to win it's freedom. When the Boil
sheviki expect an insurrection, they
attempt-and are often successful-in
provoking the movement into activity
before it Is ripe. so that the adFer-
sary's forces have not time for ade-
Quate organization.
"The Georgian patriots, who fed to
Europe before the red forces, estab-
hshed their headquarters In Paris,
maintained communication with their
native country, and theoretically gath
cred together men and money for the
purpose Of a general insurrection
against their oppressors. The Cheka
in Tiflis, which possesses sections
all over the Caucasus, exaggerated
the success Of the success of these
preparations, in order to increase the
Importance of their work for the
quenching of the Instruction. The
patriotic organizations Of Georgia
were led astray by treachery. Provo
cateurs have endeavored to create con-
spiracies where there were none in
reality, and to induce a resort to force
where nobody had thought of such a
think. When Moscow heard that the
patriotic movement was increasing in
strength, it was resolved to accelerate
the outbreak Of the instruction, in
order. first, to provoke the Georgians
to struggle and to annihilate them,
and, second, to show the Russians the
strength Of the Red Army and the
Cheka."
We have quoted the whole Of the
"Daily Telegraph" article, for in addi-
ton to a lot of rubbish it includes two
highly valuable admissions. We need
not demonstrate the absurdity Of the
assertion that the Soviet government
itself prepared the insurrection in or
der to show how powerful it is. No
body possessing the least grain of
common sense believes this. But It is
Of importance to note the admission
that the organizatory center OF the
Georgian insurrection Is In Paris, and
the second admission that the rising
has proved to be weak and Of brief
duration The whole tale of the pro-
voked acceleration of the rising by
the organs Of the Cheka merely
serves to explain why the rising prov.