A COMMON FRONT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 May 1927, Page 5

A COMMON FRONT.

NATIONS ORGANISING AGAINST BOLSHEVISM.

iY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, May 30. The Madrid correspondent of “The Times” states that the Spanish and Portuguese Governments are organising a common front against Bolshevism. It is not generally known that, since 1925, 149 persons, of whom 52 were police agents, have succumbed in Lisbon to agitators’ bombs and bullets. It was a desperate group of the old political regime which o||anised the last outbreak at Oporto fr and Lisbon also accepted Bolshevik co-operation and made a point of riddling with bullets a house over which the British flag was displayed. Lenin and Trotsky once had good hopes of a revolution in Spain and Portugal, to which they sent Borodin in 1920 with encouraging promises backed by gold, and where he had little difficulty in founding Communism.

ATHENS, May 30. The authorities have adopted 1 stern measures against the Communists who recently provoked certain labour troubles. The secretary 'has been arrested, and 20 members of the party have been isolated on some islands. Secret archives have also been seized, and these reveal that the Communists fomented the recent trouble among the tobacco workers, whom they assisted with funds.