AN ALLEGED SPY.
HOW COMMUNISTS TREATED HIM. 8Y GABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION — rnPYRIOTPI LONDON, July 19. A sensational happening is reported from Glasgow. Mr Ephraim O’Connor. -• prominent Orangeman, endeavoured ■ c pry into the doings of Communists, and he was accepted as a probationer. Eventually the Communists became suspicious. and at a secret meeting accused him of trafficking secrets. They drafted an indictment and ordered him to sign it- O’Connor counteracted a signature, but the Communists discovered the ruse and improvised a court-martial. They ordered him to run the gaunt-’et of two rows of delegates. by' which he was severely' pummelled. He retaliated so furiously Hat the Communists called the police, who. arrested O’Connor, but subsequently released him.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 July 1925, Page 5
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116AN ALLEGED SPY. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 21 July 1925, Page 5
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