The Zinovieff Letter

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 281, 7 November 1924, Page 5

The Zinovieff Letter

Threat By Radek SINS OF LORD CURZON AND MR. MACDONALD. MOSCOW ABSURDITIES. ißy Cable—Press Association—Copy right. J (Received 7, 8.00 a.m.) uupenna o eii, x \ov. 6. The Soviet newspaper “Pravda publishes itaucK s open letter tiireateuiiig that unless tho British Government gives the boviet satisiaction iu connection with the Zinovieii letter, the Soviet will puolish throughout iturope and Asia an exposure 01 lalsihcationb perpetrated during Lord Uurzon s anu ide MacDonald’s regimes.—(A. anu. N.Z.) SOME COMICAL DISCLAIMERS. MR MACDONALD TO BE TRIED. (Received 7, 11-50 aTm.) Nov. 6. Tho “Morning Post's” Russian correspondent states that the attempts by Russian leaders and the press to dis claim responsibility for the Zinovieff etter become comic. Every leader and newspaper has a different version o* who rorged the letter. Zinovieff’s own official organ the “Pravda,” even declares that Mr MacDonald himself wrote the letter. The Soviet Government’s organ, *‘lsvestia,” declares that British Conservatives and Socialists concluded a secret agreement and Labour leaders deliberately sought to defeat their own party at the polls because they had reached tho conclusion that the Anglo-Soviet treaty terms were undesirble. According to reports received from Moscow Soviet circles, a special supreme revolutionary tribunal of the world proletariat will bo established to try Mr MacDonald in absentia for his betrayal of the cause of Socialism and a world revolution.—(A. and N.Z.)