“MUST BE STOPPED.”
ILLEGAL WORK IN ENGLAND
COMMUNISTS SENT TO GAOL
;iS':ec. Tel., Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Router's Telegram.) LONDON, Nov. 25.
The Cc.nui-ui.sts who were found guilty of seditious conspiracy each wore a red rosette.
The Judge, in pronouncing the senleiucs, said it was obvious from the evidence they were members of an illegal party carrying on illegal work in England, and it must be stopped. The live who were each sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment had been convicted before. The Judge said he was anxious it lu- could avoid it, to send the other seven to prison. Those who promised to have nothing more to do with this association would be hound over to good behavior.
Tho Judge askedi each of the seven whether'they would 1 he bound over, and each replied emphatically in the negative.
MOTION TABLED TN lIOUST'
(Australian and N.Z Cable Association.; LONDON, Nov. 25.
The Hon. It ams ay MacDonald, the Hon. J. 11. Thomas, the Hon. P. Snowden and other Laborites have tabled a motion to he discussed in the House of Commons on Tuesday, that the action, of the Government, in initiating tho prosecution of certain members of the Communist Party, was a violation of the traditional British rights of freedom of speech, and the publication of opinion. A HEALTHY WARNING. (Reuters Telegram.) (Received November 27, 11 n.m.) LONDON, Nov. 26.
The imprisonment of virtually the whole of the Communist executive conceivably will not be the end of the party’s discomfiture, since justification of further proceedings may he regarded as embodied in a significant, phrase used by the Judge in sentencing the defendants: “You are members of an illegal party, carrying on illegal work.” The convictions arc the loading ionic in all newspapers. Many applaud the prosecutions as providing a healthy warning. No one questions the legal justice of the convictions, though some opposition commentators doubt, the wisdom of driving the subversive activities underground.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 7
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