SOVIET THREATENINGS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16579, 7 November 1924, Page 5

SOVIET THREATENINGS.

RADFK IN NASTY MOOD. (Australian and N.K Gable Association. 1 (Received Nov. 7, .10 a.in.) (COPENHAGEN, Nov. 6. The Soviet newspaper Pravada publishes Radek’s open letter, threatening < hat unless the British Government gives the Soviet satisfaction in connection with the Zinovieff letter, the Soviet will publish throughout Europe and Asia an exposure of falsifications perpetrated during Lord Curzon’s and Mr MacDonald’s regimes. COM TO DISCLAIMERS. MR. MMCDONALD TO BE TRIED TN ABSENTIA. .Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 1 Nov. 7, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 6. The Morning Post’s Russian correspondent states that the attempts of Russian leaders and the press to disclaim responsibility for tho Zinovieff letter have become comic. Every leader amd newspaper has a different version as to who forged the letter. Zinovieff’s own official organ, the Pravda, even declares that Mr. MacDonald himself wrote the letter, Tha Soviet Government’s organ Investia declares that the British Conservatives and Socialists concluded a secret agreement. The Labor leaders deliberately sought to defeat their own party at the polls, because they had reached the conclusion that tha Anglo-Soviet treaty terms were undesirable.

According to reports received in Moscow Soviet circles a special Supremo Revolutionary Tribunal of the World Proletariat will be established to try Mr. MacDonald in absentia for his betrayal of the cause of Socialism and world revolution.