COMMUNIST ARRESTED
EXPLOSIVES IN HIS POSSESSION. DARING PLOT ALLEGED. Pre»» Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 7. Percy Gibson, a leading Communist, was charged at Newcastle with being in tho possession of explosives. . . For tho prosecution it was stated that Gibson had a secret room, where he told his friends that ho wished to blow up the Town Hall when tho council was sitting, and then the power stations, and when tho city was in darkness the Communists would loot tho shops. Much Communist literature advocating violence for political purposes was found in his room. Gibson, when caught on the quay with tho explosives, said ho intended to dump them in the river. Ho was remanded. — A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19374, 9 January 1925, Page 5
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