SECRET DOCUMENT.
Police Inquiries Into Alleged Lang Scheme. LIBEL WRITS FOLLOW. (Received 10.00 a.m.) SYDNEY, thie day. The "Daily Telegraph" says that police action began the instant the alleged Lang Guard Secret Service document found in Parliament House was handed to the Commissioner of Police. The Commissioner, Mr. Childs, states that a thorough investigation will be made.
The Chief Secretary, Mr. F. Chaffey, commented that the document was consistent with the resolutions passed at the Easter Conference of 1931 and rescinded next day. "It is the same Soviet plan that the Lang Government has been aseociated. with all along."
The "Daily Telegraph" adds that a message to the "Labour Daily" late on Wednesday night informed that paper of the impending publication of the document, and it was quick to rush into print with a condemnation of it without having seen it.
Minter, Simpson and Company has issued writs out of the Supreme Court on belialf of Sir Hugh Denison, Sir John Butters, and Mr. Albert Fordyce Wheeler, directors of Associated Newspapers, for £10,000 each against the "Labour Daily," and George Smith, the printer and publisher.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1932, Page 7
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