Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1920 — TURK LEADS RADICALS [ARTICLE]

TURK LEADS RADICALS

MOSCOW CHIEFS BACK ENVER PABHA TO FIGHT BRITISH. i Dutch Official Bays Movsmsnt la Dlractad at Great Britain In the Far East. Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 16. —Enver Pasha, former Turkish minister of war, who was recently elected king of Kurdistan, has started a botabevlst revolt in Turkestan, Afghanistan and Baluchistan, according to a telegram from Baku. Enver is said to have many followers and is directing his energies against British prestige in southwestern Asia, the ultimate alm being India. Large sums of money, it Is reported, have been furnished Enver by the soviet government in Moscow. This is the first time on record that a bolshevlst movement has been started by a monarch. The Hague, Holland, Jan. 16.—The apparent bolshevlst movement in parts of southern Asia and the East Indies is not so much genuine bolshevism as it Is a movement directed against Great Britain, according to a Dutch official who is In constant touch with affairs in the far East. “We have learned," the official told a correspondent, "that delegations from Afghanistan, from British India, and from some other Asiatic countries, have been at Moscow in close communication with the soviet government. “It is apparent that those who seek aid from the Russian bolshevikl almost Invariably are those elements which have fought British rule in India or British control in other portions of the East. Their alm is simply to get Russian backing for their antl-British campaign.”