ANTI-BOLSHEVIK CRUSADE.
REPRESSIVE ACTION BY U.S. GOVERNMENT. '
2000 COMMUNISTS ARRESTED
By Eleotrio Telegraph.—Copyright. VustraUan-New. Zealand Cable Association. I .LONDON, Jan. 2. I Mr Palmer announces that raids on the •adicals have been carried out. in 35 cities. 1 Hundreds of members of the' Communist larty have been arrested. It p expected that the total will reach 1000. A Chicago message states, that more ban 200 radicals have been arrested on charges of disseminating Bolshevik literature, and planning to overthrow the Government. ‘ . 1 . It ’is reported that 500 Communists liave been arrested in New York, 300 in Detroit and 400 in Philadelphia. ,It is-now estimated that the total will be 2000. Honoris 'coming in from many cities show that the. Department of Justice is making a systematic attempt-to thoroughly free the country from tho radicals, especially the members of the Communist party, which rcconfly issued a manifesto advocating tho overthrow of the American Government, ft is intimated that the Government will begin deportation -proceedings against many of those .arrested.' Large quantities "of radical literature were also captured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1715, 5 January 1920, Page 3
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