A MODERN GUY FAWKES
communist Gunpowder plot. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTWOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZBAIAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received Bth January, 9 a.m.) _■■ LONDON, 7th January. ±"eroy Gibson, a leading Communist, was charged at Newcastle with being i;i possession of explosives. The prosecution staged that he had a secret room, where he told friends that he wished to blow up the Town Hall, when the City Council wbs sitting, and then the power stations. When the city was iv darkness, the Communists.would loot shops. Much Communist literature advocating violence, for political purposes was found m his room. Gibson, when caught on the quay with the explosives, said'that he intended to dump them }n the river. He wai reminded.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 7
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A MODERN GUY FAWKES
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 7
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