Evening star., 1924-12-05
PLOTTING IN EUROPE.
Reds Carrying on Systematic
Revolutions.
BY f. A. MACKENZIE.

A.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
LONDON December 5.-The upris-
ing in Esthonia is part of a systema-
tized campaign for promoting revo-
luton in eastern Europe. 1t is
financed by the Comintern, working
from Moscow, and is directly con-
nected with the present acute dispute
between the dominant Zinoviev fac
tion in the Communist party and Leon
Trotsky.
Trotsky maintains the time is not
propitious for further efforts to pro-
mote European revolution and urges
concentration of effort in the Far
East. Zinoviev and the Comintern
maintain European revolution is
still possible.
zinovievs authority has been
greatly shaken in the last year by
his blundering control which has
done much to wreck the non-Rus-
sian comintern. He fears that de-
spite AN efforts against Trotzky
within Russia, the later may secure
sufficient support from Communists
outside Russia to overthrow the
present group.
Raidfng I'm Poland.
Zinoviev is anxious to prove by
actual demonstration that Trotzky
is wrong; hence the present activity,
For some weeks there has been a
continuous uproar in eastern Poland,
sporadic bands raiding railroad sta
tlons, plundering towns and robbing
merchants. These bands appear as
from nowhere, destroy. kill and dis
appear. The Poes say they cross
the border from Russia where they
are organized and financed The Rus
SLAMS reply that they are Polish,
white Russian and Ukrainian sub
!ects revolving against the very
harsh conditions of their lot.
The last uprising in Bulgaria ad-
mlttedly was directed by the CO.
mintern. The struggle between the
Communists and Nationalists never
really has ceased in Esthonia and
LatVla since these states secured
their independence.
Guilty OF Cruelty.
The Communists were guilty of an
paIling cruelties when they had rower
there in 1919, which the Esthonians and
the Latvians never have forgotten or
forgiven, and they are taking every on.
portunlty to repay in kind. "Russia
wanls 10 make US another Georgia, ;"
Esthonias danger is greater hecause
OF It's proximity to Pelingrad and he
cause OF an active Communist campaign
among Its factory workers, particula rlv
Jewish workers. For months mast
money mas been poured out among these
Every investigation has shown that This
money is from Moscow.
LatVlan authorities are less annra-
hensiVe. They say communism Is ut-
terly discredited there. Their factor
workers, Who always are the most dan
Aerous element, now are GONNA arativeI,,
ie" IN numbers. while the peasants
nave been satisfied by drastic measures
III destroying iandlordism and giving
the farmers their own land
Russia Strengthens Force.
one other source of danper fror,
the RUSSIAN side comes from the he-
Lei among one group of Soviet lead
ers that a demonstration against
minor states like Esthonfa and IatyIa
would help remove the popular nm
rest created by internal distress
russia has been making feyerisb
military preparations recently. mar
ticularly seeking to remedy her
weakness in heavy artillery and gas
equipment. Practice of big Guns
around Moscow every morning re-
Gently sounded like a minor "strafc"
on the western front in war days.
Feeling among the Russian people.
particularly the peasantry, is SO in
tense against an offensive war 1t is
dlfhcult to Imagine the government
defying 1t. War would do more to
imperil existence of the Soviet gov
ernment than any other cause.
Copyright 1924, by Chicago Daily News co.,