ALLEGED BOLSHEVIST IMPRISONED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 August 1919, Page 4

ALLEGED BOLSHEVIST IMPRISONED.

AUCKLAND, Aug. 26. Consequent upon complaints of dissemination of Bolshevik principles antt litgrature in Auckland, the local police, acting upon warrant from the commandant of the New Zealand forces, have arrested Leonard Coplan Rpranoff, alias, Bernstein, on the ground that he is "a disaffected and dangerous alien," and the prisoner has been incarcerated in Mount Eden gaol, to be detained at the pleasure of the authorities. As the arrest "is a military one. the man will not be charged, but will be kept in internment. The arrest was "carried out in an office in Queen street occupied by' an alien who was conducting business as a masseur. A quantity of literature and correspondence, said to relate to Bolshevism, was seized by the police, and this is being investigated. Recently Boranoff was charged with failing to notify a change of address as an alien, and on that occasion he was fined £2. It is now alleged against the man that he has advocated Bolshevism in a street meeting, that he had broadcasted Bolshevist literature, and hae striven to create disaffection amongst the workers, and particularly! amongst the Jugo-Slavs.