RUSSIAN MONEY
SUPPLIED TO IRISH GUNMEN. ATTEMPTS TO FOMENT TROUBLE. RUGBY, April 19. In the House of Commons Major Kim dersley asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that the Bank of England notes found on persons described as Irish gunmen who were arrested before Eastei for being in illegal possession of firearms, had been traced to Russian banking institutions in this -nuntry, he would make inquiries a® x ' whether any moneys standing to the credit of Russian trading organisations in this country were being used in attempts to foment and organise revolutionary action here. The Home Secretary replied that Major Kindersley’s information was correct. He was constantly making inquiries, and was satisfied that Russian money waq being used in the way suggested. STATEMENT BY HOME SECRETARY. LONDON, April 19.
The chairman of the Moscow Narodny Bank and the Bank of Russian Trade, the only Russian banks in London, have written to Sir William Joyn: on-Hicks denying any dealing with the Irish gunmen.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks, speaking at Leamington, repeated the statement that a Russian bank in Britain was s- bsidising crimes and seeking to destroy constitutional government. “ What right,” he asked, “ has Russia to go to Geneva with talk of world peace while her emissaries, with her gold, are seeking to destroy the governments with which she professes to be on fiiendly terms? “ I have the most complete evidence in my possession that a large number of Treasury notes from a Russian bank here passed into the possession of the Communist Party, thence to Communist organisers in all parts of Britain. There is a direct chain from the Russian bank to Communist agitators in all the great cities in this land. I have warned the Labour Party over and over again that they are accepting help from the Communist Party, and they have declined to heed my warning that behind the Communists there is a movement to destroy trade unionists organisations and Labour leadership.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3867, 24 April 1928, Page 28
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