COMMUNIST PERIL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1186, 8 December 1924, Page 5

COMMUNIST PERIL

MODERATE FRENCHMEN ALARMED. INFLUENCE - OF KRASSIN. [By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] Received December 8, 10.45 a.m. LONDON. Dec. 7. The Times’,s Baris correspondent states that the growing strength of the Communist movement in Franco is alarming all moderate Frenchmen, who are convinced that the Communist Haines will spread still further now that Krassin is installed in the Soviet Embassy. Krassin declared that he had no intention of interfering with France’s internal affairs, but even the Ere Nouvelle, the leading Government organ, is not prepared to take him at his word and fcarns him that he will he judged b,v lus acts. “If the Bolshevists,” it says, “take advantage of diplomatic immunity in order to pursue their propaganda in France, directly or indirectly, Krassin must be handed bis passports.”—Times. WILL BE FOUGHT BY FRANCE. STATEMENT BY M. HER RIOT. PARIS, Doc. 6. The return of M. Sadoul and the Communist demonstrations in honour of M. Krassin have intensified the agitation in press and Parliament against the alleged growth of Communist activities. There lias been a remarkable manifestation of this in the Breton fishing port of Doarnenez, where a strike’ of fish dinners was made the occasion of Communist demonstrations, in one of which the Mayor, M. Le Flanche, took part, wearing a tricolour scarf. In consequence of this action, the Prefect lias suspended him and lie will he charged in Court with inciting to rebellion. M. Kerriot told the Communist leader, M. Cochin, that the Government was determined to fight, the Communist peril, to suppress demonstrations. and to expel foreign Communists who meddled in France’s foreign politics. This statement was made in the course of a debate in the Chamber on the navy estimates, when the Communists violently attacked the Government.

The Chamber eventually refused M. Cochin leave to move an interpellation on the subject of M. Le Flanehe’s suspension. It is noteworthy that the French police were active to-day, rounding up Communist suspects in Paris.—A. and N.Z. cable. RUMOURS OF A COUP. PARIS, Dee. 7. In reference to tho Communist scare, it is even rumoured that a revolutionary coup is being planned for a particular day in December.—A. and N.Z. cable. RAID BY AUTHORITIES. LARGE NUMBER OF ARRESTS. Received December 8, 9.30 a.m. PARIS, Dec. 7. Eight hundred police and Republican guards raided the Communist quarters in the Bolpguey suburb, especially paying attention to the Leninist school, where alleged seditious instructions -are given. Four hundred arrests were made, whereof 70 of the persons were ultimately detained, including a Communist ex-deputy. it is stated that documents were found revealing a plot to effect a Communist coup in Paris very shortly. The police intend raiding other suburbs and to search for stores of hidden rifles.--A. and N.Z. cable. DEPUTY TO BE TRIED. Received December 8, 10.45 a.m. PARIS, Dec. 7. Sadoul has been taken to Orleans where lie will lie court-imirtialled.—A. and N.Z. cable. OFFICERS OF RED PLATOONS. Received December 8. 11 a.m. LONDON. Dec. 7. The Despatch says that the arrested Communists in Paris are mostly Russians acting as officers of the Red platoons organised throughout France. Tho Communists are reported to have installed three wireless transmitting stations near Paris ready to issue instructions in event of a revolution. Further raids and arrests have been made in Marseilles, Lyons and Lille. —A. and N.Z. cable.