WELLINGTON DISORDERS
INFLUENCE OF COMMUNISTS PLAIN SPEAKING FROM BENCH (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 16. Before announcing the sentences on the Wellington rioters, the magistrate (Mr E. Page) briefly reviewed recent happenings, adding:— “ My opinion is that this orgy of window breaking and looting was not the work of genuine unemployed, but of a small band led by members of an organisation of Communists operating in our midst, whose doctrine appears to be to foster mob violence and revolutionary disorder. As to the punishment to be imposed, there can be only one answer: Those who choose to ally themselves with the forces of disorder need not expect lenient treatment in this court. By our laws, if several people form a common intention to prosecute any unlawful purpose (as, for example, breaking shop windows and stealing goods therefrom) each of them is a party to every offence committed by any of them in the prosecution of such common purpose.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21646, 17 May 1932, Page 7
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