200 COMMUNISTS ARRESTED
Widespread Raids In Sweden (Received February 11, 10150 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, February 11. The police arrested 200 leading Communists in a series of raids in Stockholm, Boden, Goteborg. Malmo, and other cities and towns.
The arrests followed a discovery that Russia has sent money for antiSwedish activities.
Those arrested include the editor of the Stockholm Communist newspaper. A statement by (lie police says that it has been learned that the Swedish Communist Party has been receiving large sums of money from Russia, probably destined for harfmul uses in Sweden.
Two Communist members of the Swedish Labour delegation which visited Moscow in 1931 are stated to have received money for propaganda purposes from M. Kussinen, who is now the head of the puppet Government set up by the Communists at Terijoki. Much Communist material has been seized for examination bv the police.— By radio.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 9
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