WAR ON THE REDS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 10039, 16 June 1925, Page 5

WAR ON THE REDS

PUBLIC EXECUTION ORDERED JN SOFIA

OVER 3000 AWAIT COURTMARTIAL

(UNITED PEEKS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE aSSN.) SOFIA, Juno 14.

A court-martial ordered the public execution of Lieutenant-Oolonel Milton off and threo other anarchists including a woman found guilty of participating in secret organisations of furnishing arms to conspirators. A captain who was similarly sentenced committed suicide on the point of arrest. Those condemned were ordered to pay conjointly twelve million leva damages. The Minister for War informed the Chamber that over three thousand persons were in the prisons awaiting court-martial. In addition to the death sentences on Miltenoff and eight others, the court-martial sentenced the conspirators Pencheff and 'Loulteheff to eight and four years’ imprisonment respectively for concealing ammunition in houses. Groudolf, another accused, was fined two thousand leva on a charge of wrongfully appropriating articles belonging to the State.

WILD SCENES IN HYDE PARK. COMMUNISTS ATTACK POLICE ‘SYDNEY SUN CABLE) LONDON, Juno 14. A crowd numbering thousands watched wild scenes in Hyde Park at midnight. Communists, believing the p dice had arrested one of their number, attempted a rescue. Eascisti aided the police, marching alongside them to the police station. Communists made three ugly rushes and the police made a baton charge, in which many were injured, and five arrests were made. MOSCOW MONEY FOR BRITISH REDS. HOME SECRETARY APPEALS TO TRADE UNIONISTS (REUTER’S TELEGRAM.) LONDON, June 14. Speaking at Chats worth, the Home Secretary expressed a definite conviction that the Moscow Government was financing the British Communist movement, lie appealed to trade unionists to resist this hideous grub which was eating into the heart of oak. ANOTHER ZiNOYIEFF DOCUMENT. “KEEP BOLSHEVISM ALT. YE PA A CIT Y ITIES A PR 0 AD. ’ ’ (SYDNEY STTX GABLE) LONDON, June 14. The Daily Mail discloses a secret document wherein ZinoviefF declares Bolshevism can only ho kept alive by revolutionary activities abroad. In view of setbacks in many lands, lie is of the opinion that Jpitain is the most promising field for intrigue and advises his followers to concentrate on Britain.