COMMUNIST ACTION

Grey River Argus, 18 April 1940, Page 8

COMMUNIST ACTION

Against War Effort AUSTRALIA DETERMINED [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received April 17, 10.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 17. Prompt action to suppress Communism, if it threatens Australia s war effort, was promised in the Gov-ernor-General’s speech at the opening of the • Commonwealth Parliament to-day. Lord Gowrie the Governor-Gener-al, said: “The ’limits of freedom are reached when men, who profess allegiance to a nation other than their own nation, plan to overthrow constitutional government, and when they direct their activities toward the defeat of their own country in a war to which that country is committed. Referring to the coal strike, Lord Gowrie said that the Government would take every step to uphold the law and the Arbitration awards, and he added that should the coal strike threaten the ‘essential or the country’s internal or external defence activities, then necessary and appropriate action would be taken to maintain the coal supplies. NAZI-CO MM UN I STS. ACTIVE IN MEXICO. (Received April 17, 10.30 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, April 17. Secret police have . discovered at least one hundred Nazi agents and a number of Communist operatives under a German Gestapo agent are are seeking to foment a revolution in order to divert the American Republics, and particularly the United States, from any attempt to enter the war.