AN ILLEGAL CREED

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 100, 24 October 1925, Page 7

AN ILLEGAL CREED

COMMUNISM INDICTED

PROSECUTION'S CONTENTIONS

IN, CASE AGAINST LEADERS,

(UNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPSIUfIHT.)

(lIEUTER'S TELEGRAM,) (Eeceived 24th October, noon.)

LONDON, 23rd October. Twelve arrested Communist leaders were charged at Bow Street with unlawful conspiracy to publish seditious libels, and incite to mutiny. There was a large crowd outside the Court. A section oftlie crowd sang "The Red Flag." During a scrimmage the police took into custody a man carrying a red flag. Tom Mann tried to prevent it. In the Court, Sir Travers Humphreys, prosecuting for tho Crown, said that the accused were prosecuted as leaders and principal executive officers of two illegal organisations, namely.' the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the Young Communist League, which received its orders from Moscow. The prosecution's view was that all persons disseminating the doctrine of Communism were liable, to prosecution for sedition. Communism, as explained by the accused, was illegal because it involved the forcible overthrow of the Government, the creation of class, war, and the seduction of the armed forces of the Crown from their allegiance.