COMMUNISTS’ CAMPAIGN

Patea Mail, Volume L, 31 July 1929, Page 3

COMMUNISTS’ CAMPAIGN

WORLD-WIDE DISTURBANCES

FIERCE FIGHT IN BELGRADE

In connection with the Riga announcement that the Soviet has ordered a great revolutionary battle review throughout the world on August 1, an amazing letter to Bolshevik agents has been received in Australia, ordering Communists to do all possible, to embarrass the Government, without openly opposing it, to weaken the army, corrupt reservists, wounded pensioners, and to destroy the institutions of the bourgeois class. A Belgrade cable says that as a precaution against a Communist rising, which is being planned throughout Europe for September 1, the police surrounded a secret meeting of Reds in a hotel in the village of Samobar.

An order to surrender was met with a stream of bullets. In a fierce fight three Communists were killed and three wounded and several police were wounded.

London police frustrated an attempted hostile demonstration at the Chinese Legation after an anti-war meeting had been held in Trafalgar Square. Communists demonstrated outside the Legation, but mounted police moved them on. A slight .scrummage occurred, but there were no incidents of note.

Paris authorities are leaving nothing to chance regarding Thursday’s Communist demonstrations. They arc mustering 22,000 police troops in the city, guarding all public buildings, monuments, factories, and cross roads.