BRITISH “REDS” ON TRIAL
REVOLUTIONARY PLOT ALLEGED ALL PLEAD NOT GUILTY. Reuter’s Telegram. LONDON, November 16. The trial of 12 Communists, recently arrested on a charge of seditious conspiracy, has opened. There are two women on the jury. All the defendants pleaded not guilty. The Attorney-General, opening the case, said that the nature of. the conspiracy which the prosecution undertook to prove was that defendants were heads in Britain of an illegal organisation calling itself the Communist Party of Great Britain, the supreme control of which was in Moscow, and the object of which was to overthrow forcibly by arms the existing state of society, and, as a means thereto, to seduce the armed forces of the Crown from their allegiance.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12298, 18 November 1925, Page 7
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121BRITISH “REDS” ON TRIAL New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12298, 18 November 1925, Page 7
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