BOLSHEVISM IN AMERICA.
RAID ON RUSSIAN UNION. Router. NEW YORK» Mar. 16. j The police raided a meeting of members of the Union of Russian Peasants of America and made over 100 arrests. The literature seized included books printed in Russian advocating the overthrow of the United States Government. Eugene Debs, the Socialist candidate for the American Presidency, wLo was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for disloyal utterances, in a farewell speech at Cleveland, before starting hip sentence, approved of the Bolsheviks, and described Lenin and Trotzky as the foremost statesmen of the age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17112, 18 March 1919, Page 7
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