BRITAIN’S REDS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 June 1925, Page 8

BRITAIN’S REDS

‘ ‘SMASHING ’' PIIOGH AAI ME. UiREAT r J'O RAKOVSKY. LONDON, May 31. Scotland Yard officers are searching for a- man who is said to have been sim iggled into Engl at id from Holland for the purpose of'killing 31. llakovsky, the Soviet representative iti London. Detectives arrested two Communists who had been endeavouring to enter Gravesend and Ramsgate to attend a conference. THE ULTIMATE ATM. Prior to the opening of the Communist Conference at Glasgow two men sprinkled the hall with suephide of ammonia, the offensive odour penetrating everywhere. 'Henry Politt (who was allegedly proceeding to a Communist gathering) presided. He told the convention that the Communists must not cease their activities unfci] they had smashed every vestige of the capitalist machine. Rigid precautions were taken to prevent unauthorised persons gaining adhiiissipn to the conference. There were 200. delegates present, including several women. REVOLUTION \Y 1 IUI IN EMPIRE. BONdON. June l. Mr. ’L'homas Bell told the conference that definite steps had been taken to establish a revolutionary, republic in Ireland, and to materially assist the revolutionary groups which were established throughout the Empire. Help was also being afforded to those nationalities who were struggling against Imperialist rule, especially Palestine. Syria and Egypt. The programme had been completed for the permeation of the army, navy, and air force, and it was already healing fruit.