From The Hindu, July 1, 1925: Bolsheviks and India
Earl Winterton replied he was not quite sure what Sir Walter De Frece meant by Bolshevik agitation. Attempts at Bolshevik propaganda in India and the Frontier were continuous and openly advocated by Communist leaders in Russia.
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