REDS IN TRAP.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10728, 27 October 1928, Page 5

REDS IN TRAP.

FUNERAL OF BUILDING. DISASTER VICTIMS •;

COMMUNISTS BETRAY \ THEM-;

SELVES

United Press Assn, by EL Tel. Cop!KrigM

(Times Cables.* (Received Oct, 26, 9 p.m.); PARIS, Oct. 25. Triple lines of police city ■ guards. formed a cordon round - the Vinoenna-Town-HalL where flaceovered and flower-banked coffins, tno victims of the seven-storey new building collapse on October 18. • They promptly sorted out from the crowd the. Communists, who had declared they would not permit any of-, ficial to attend the funeral. Plain; clothes men, as thousands of work--ers poured out of the underground station, discreetly tapped the “Red?;” on the shoulder, whispering “This ; way!” ' Unsuspecting, the Communists do»* cilely obeyed and were led to the old fortifications'and detained. Resisters were hustled off to the police station.

The police used a cafe, destined for the Communist headquarters, as .» trap allowing the “Reds” to report themselves therein, and taking them in custody as they made their exit.'■ The funeral ■ was carried "out-, with all decorum. under the surveillance of a wirelessly-equipped police aeroplane, enabling motor lorries - with police armed guards to forestall the Communists at strategical points and preventing rush tactics. Those detained numbered 1500, of whom 50 were armed.