HUGE COMMUNIST PLOT.
POLISH SENSATION.
HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS
(bt cable—fress association— copt Bight.) (Stoke? "Sum" Service.)
(Received January 17th, 6.55 p.m.)
LONDON, January 16.
The Warsaw correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that the police, having arrested 120 persons, including three members of Parliament, and several high State officials, claim that they have crushed a Communist plot on a huge scale, to cause a revolution in Poland. Hundreds of other arrests are being made throughout Poland and large stores of ammunition have also been seized. It is alleged that the plotters have been receiving large sums of money from Moscow.
ARRESTS IN VILNA
SOVIET MONEY DISTRIBUTED. (AUSTRALIAN AKD V,Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIOK.) (Received January 16th, 7.5 p.m.) WARSAW, January 16. Following, on the arrest of three Deputies, the Government arrested 400 Poles, chiefly in Vilna, on charges ol conspiring in the interests of Soviet Russia. Those arrested include clergymen and bankers suspected of distributing Soviet money among Communist organisations. The agents and conspirators are mostly peasants, whose aim is the confiscation of all large estates.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18902, 18 January 1927, Page 7
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174HUGE COMMUNIST PLOT. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18902, 18 January 1927, Page 7
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