COMMUNIST RISING

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1929, Page 7

COMMUNIST RISING

PLANNED FOR AUGUST 1.

PRECAUTIONS IN EUROPE

AMAZING LETTER TO AUSTRALIA

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received July 29, 10.50 a.m. BELGRADE, July 28. As a precaution against the Communist rising which is being planned throughout Europe for August 1, the police surrounded a secret meeting of Reds in an hotel in a village of Samobar. The order to surrender was met with a stream of bullets. A fierce fight ensued; three Communists were killed and three wounded and several police were wounded. BOLSHEVIK AGENTS IN AUSTRALIA. ORDERS FROM HEADQUARTERS. “DESTROY INSTITUTIONS OF BOURGEOIS CLASS.” Received July 29, 9.20 a.m. SYDNEY, July 29.

In connection with the announcement that the Soviet has ordered a great revolutionary battle review throughout the world on August 1, an amazing letter has been received by Bolshevik agents in Australia ordering the Communists to do all possible to embarrass the Government, without openly opposing it; to weaken the army, corrupt the reservists and wounded pensioners, and destroy the institutions of the bourgeois class.

SOVIET MANIFESTO.

DISTRIBUTED TO BRITISH SHIPS’ CREWS.

(Times Cables.) LONDON, July 27. The Times reports that a firm of London shipowners has received a copy of a Soviet manifesto, which was distributed to the crew of one of its ships, commanding a general stoppage on August 1 and denouncing Sir Ramsay MacDonald as a “friend of the King, who is a champion of British Imperialism.”

EXCITEMENT IN PARIS.

POLICE ACTIVE,

(United Service.) LONDON, July 27. It is reported that Paris is aflame with excitement in consequence of the determined efforts of the Communists to frustrate the Government’s resolve to prevent disturbances on August 1. A wire connecting the Prefecture of Police, the military headquarters, and six barracks of the Republican Guards was cut with the object of paralysing a forceful stoppage of the demonstrations.

The police are redoubling their vigilance. They raided the offices of the Communist newspaper Avant Garde today and seized thousands of copies, which are said to contain incitements to revolt.