REVOLUTIONARY PLOTS

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 187, 8 August 1919, Page 5

REVOLUTIONARY PLOTS

HATCHED IN BRITAIN. FINANCED FROM ABROAD. BOLSHEVISTIC AID. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, August 7. The Government is convinced that the strikes in England are part of a definite conspiracy, financed from abroad, aiming at a revolution. If the police strike had succeeded, it was intended as a signal for direct action on the largest scale. (A. and N.Z. Cable ) The "Daily Mail" states that the revolutionary conspiracy behind the strikes is of Bolshevik origin and that correspondence has been seized which implicates Trotsky, Tchicherin, and Bcla Kun It ,is not indicated that responsible British Labour leaders are involved. — (United Service.) Scotland Yard has definite information that Bela Kun sent £0000 to England, via Stockholm, by a Swede, who confessed that he handed it to a Labour leader with extreme views.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) DIRECT ACTION METHODS. LONDON, August 7. Lord Robert Cecil, in the House of Commons, drew the attention of the Government to a proposal for simultaneous coal mine, railway, and transport strikes in order to force the Government to adopt certain policies regarding Russia, conscription, and the conscientious objectors. Mr. Bonar Law replied that if any attempt to force a political- decision by such methods were successful it would be the end of all democratic and constitutional government. The duty of the Government was to resist such an attempt with all the resources at its disposal.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)