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Show BOLSHEVIK PROGRAM. Dispatches reporting the appearance in Moscow of an Afghan embassy throw a new light on the development of Eussian Bolshevism. It would seem that the revolutionaries of Russia have had a definite program of operation in tho east. The result of their work is becoming more ciearly visible. Their ultimate aim doubtless is to promote a revolt in India, and they may succeed suc-ceed in their plan to the extent at least of creating serious disturbances in middle Asia. As a step in that program pro-gram they are undertaking to Boishe-vize Boishe-vize the Mohammedan world. The enterprise is r.ot altogether so fantastic as it seems on the face. There are miliions of Mohammedans in Russia, Rus-sia, concentra:ed for the most pat on the Volga, in the . Ural region, in Turkestan and Eastern Caucasus. During Dur-ing the last twenty years a nationalist movement has developed among the Russian Mohammedans and has found expression in a literature and in re- ! liious and h:c:a' ref'-'rrr.s, :ce'.uiing : ti.o erj.uni.-ipa::'jn or "'-e:r.'.n. T':i3 mo'. e-! e-! n.tc! itis -'..-rjngly Lrfee-.cd by Il-iian po.i-.ieai devcl'jpii-eLts uni for tlat .'ej-jon, perha, n.ure ai'.'n.-ed ti.an the corr. pondug jna! move-i.'icuts move-i.'icuts in o'.l.cr M ..han:;!.e iun c vuutrici. The participation of Turk in the war agumst K-ssia was a severe tet of the loyalty of kinsmen of tl.e Turks in ilusjia and not all the national leaders proved superior to tempta'ieu. German and Turkish influences raIe themselves strongly felt ia the Uu3iaa Mohammedan movemeat during the war and more particularly during the re-.'ulution. LV.ablishrrjent of a Tartar republic with Turkish aid revealed the extent to which tho German and Turkish agitation agi-tation hud been operating to d:!ve a wedgo through from the Black sea into central .Nia. This Russian Mohammedan Moham-medan movement was seized on then by tho Bolsheviki as a lever fur provoking pro-voking a revolution in the Mohammedan Moham-medan cast. In the east Bolsheviks arc the apostles apos-tles of rcvoluiiou for revolution's sake, and by all means, hoping ultimately ulti-mately that it may be presumed to direct di-rect tho movement into orthodox Bolshevist Bol-shevist channels. Tn the east as in the west, the chief object of their attacks is tho British empire. Meanwhile they are taking full advantage ad-vantage of their occupation of the Mohammedan districts of Russia, aud carrying on a violent agitation. IN'cver has there been such propaganda among the Tartars, never have there been so many Tartar newspapers on the Volga and in tho Urals as now, when all the Tartar press consists of subsidized Bolshevist Bol-shevist organs. Agitators travel about in towns and villages making speeches, founding Mohammedan communist centers, poverty communities and so forth. Turkestan is constantly simmering with revolt against tho vulgar despotism despot-ism of tho Bolsheviki and if there are many Mohammedans mobilized in the Red army thero are many loyal Mohammedans Moham-medans from the Caucasus fighting with the green ribbon and emblem of tho crescent, in the ranks of Deni-kine's Deni-kine's army, and whole units of the Siberian Tartars in the army of Admiral Ad-miral Kolchak. Bolshevism in its pure form is not a danger to the world of Islam, but it is a danger when it is used as a method of nationalist revolution revo-lution and more especially when it is mado the instrument of German and Turkish intrigue. |