MANY ARRESTS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11736, 25 January 1924, Page 8

MANY ARRESTS

MOSCOW REPORT. Australian «r.:l N.Z Cable Association. HELSINGFORS January 23. Moscow reports 10,COO arrests, causing a poric. Officially, the arrests are ascribed to the need for expelling undesirables in order to relieve the housing pressure. Really, the arrests are connected with (he present con. flict among Communists.

the man whom the two special constables interviewed last night and allowed to depart. They heard that a fight had taken place in the gardens, went to investigate and met the man coming out. they asked him if be had seen a man with a shotgun. He replied in the negative. He said that he was taking a stroll, and walked off towards the city. Of the two wounded victims Mrs Parry, of South Melbourne, lias a fractured jaw and a wound in the back. John Moxham, of Essendon, has wounds in the hack and right arm. Moxham told the following story: With his wife and children he was looking at the flowers. He suddenly felt as if he had been hit with a hammer in the small of the back, and then saw a man rise from the grass 60 yards away with a rifle to his shoulder. He shrieked and the man ran away. MAN ARRESTED. Previously Moxham heard seven or eight shots. He thought that someone was shooting cormorants. Showing a wound in his hand Moxham pathetically said: “As an accountant J. shall not be able to do any more work with this hand. It is hard luck for the wife and kiddies.” Mrs Moxham stated that the man aimed at her after shooting her husband. She ran, the man dropped to the ground and fired, and she saw him shoot a woman on a seat nearby. In their search for vhe murderer during the night the police arrested a young man, who, however, was able to satisfactorily explain that he was engaged in the same search.