LABOUR PARTY AWAKES

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12252, 25 September 1925, Page 7

LABOUR PARTY AWAKES

TO MENACE OF COMMUNISM “LEFT WING” WILL BE CHECKED MUCH HARM ALREADY DONE By Telegraph.—Brass Assn. —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received September 24, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 24. The “Daily Express’s” Labour correspondent says the leaders of the Labour Party intend directly to challenge the Communist left-wingers at the conference in Liverpool, which is regarded as the most critical in the party’s history. There will be a preliminary deliberate spiking of the guns of the promised Communist attack on Mr Ramsay MacDonald, by the publication to-day of a confidential report on the Zinovieff letter affair, in which the investigation committee will declare that Mr MacDonald was justified in all his actions. He had no alternative but to accept the genuineness of the letter, though later evidence suggests that it was bogus. The official side of the party is planning to check the extremists at every turn at Liverpool, as it is felt that the inertia of the right wiifg at Scar-

borough allowed the Communist wing to score tactical successes in the Trades Union Congress by the passage of extreme resolutions. DEPORTATIONS LIKELY OTHERS TO BE BLACK-LISTED DETECTIVES IN THE ARMY. (Sydney “Sun" Cable.) \ LONDON, September 23. The “Daily Mail” states that the Home OfficA has decided immediately to deport 60 French and Russian Communists, and is preparing to black-list other suspect*. A large force of detectives, indistinguishable from private soldiers, has been drafted into the manoeuvring armies, with orders to arrest any soldiers engaged in Communist propaganda. A permanent detective department has been established at Aldershot to detect Communist “cells,” “RED” PLOT IN BULGARIA AGAINST FOREIGN LEGATIONS. Published in “The Times. v (Received September 24, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 23. “The Times” correspondent in Sofia telegraphs that it is reported time a “Red” plot against the foreign legations has been discovered there. It is understood the Government has been' warned that attacks upon the Jugo-Slav, Greek, and Rumanian Legations Are likely to be made shortly by certain terrorists, allegedly acting under orders from the Third Internationale.

The authorities are taking measures to protect the Legations.