COMMUNIST RULE

Grey River Argus, 28 February 1947, Page 5

COMMUNIST RULE

- IN EAST EUROPE Anti-British Line 'LONDON, Feb. 26. Major J. T. Mayhew, Unler-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs, said in the House of Commons that the Embassy at Warsaw had received no reply yet to the Note addressed to the Polish authorities or to the subsequent oral representations by the Ambassador regarding the arrest of the Embassy’s translator, Marie Malinowska. ULSTER UNIONIST PROTESTS Professor Savory had described Malinoswska as having been carried off by the secret police in the middle of the night. Asked if the British Government did not protect its employees in the Embassy, Major Mayhew replied “We sent an urgent Note. We made oral representations. We expressed the hope that possibly this lady might be released under the amnesty." Further questioned about the sentence of eight years’ imprisonment passed on the Polish interpreter to a correspondent of the Sunday Tinies, London, Major Mayhew said that as the man was a P'olish citizen it was not for his department to express an opinion on the Polish court’s decision. German Workers ON BRITISH TRAIN SEIZED BY RUSSIANS (Rec. 7.35). BERLIN, February 27. Russian officers stopped the official British night train from Berlin to the west, at the zonal border, on Tuesday night, and the Russians uncoupled and sent back to Berlin a sealed coach, containing privileged German workers, who were travelling on British Army warrants. A British officer protested, pointing out that the train was on British territory, but the Russians threatened to bring up troops if it tried to go on before the coach was detached. British authorities take a serious view of the affair, and have ordered an immediate investigation. Hungarian Parly Leader CHARGED WITH PLOT LONDON, February 23. The Parliamentary Immunity Committee in Hungary refused to lift the Parliamentary immunity of the general secretary of the Small Holders Party, Bela Kovacs. Reuter’s correspondent at Budapest states Kovacs has been accused of being implicated in a plot to overthrow the republic, and a Communist, Rakori, who is Vice-President, broadcast a declaration that if the Small Holders Party obstruct investigation of the conspiracy, Communists and Socialis'ts would demand a new election. The Small Holders Party in the recent Hungarian elections in November won an absolute majority in Parliament. Then 25 of their members were, however, suspended or expelled from Parliament, and they thus lost their majority. The suspensions and expulsions followed an announcement that a plot had been discovered. BUDAPEST, Feb. 26. Bela Kovacs, formerly secretarygeneral of the Hungarian Smallholders’ Party has been arrested on the order of General Sviridov, Supreme Commander of the Russian occupation forces, states the official Hungarian News Agency. _ He 1S charged with actively participating in the formation of underground anti-Soviet armed terror groups and organising espionage directed agams the Red Army. The Smallholder’s Party leaders describe the arrest as _ direct intervention in .internal affairs to further the cause of Communism. The arrest comes two days after the Russian Minister, M. Pushkin, declared that persons concerned in a plot had been spying for the British since 1945 and could be arrested by the Russians on three grounds.