MOSCOW AGENT AS BOOKSELLER
• LONDON, July 25. The Bombav correspondent of the Daily Mail says that Mr. Langford Barnes, ;G!ro,\vn Counsel at the trial, said that. Spratt, one of the European Communists charged, came to India as a bookseller. He was a. member of the Red International, and started a “workers’ party” in Bombay to attain Swaraj (home rule) by revolutionary methods. The letters 'read by counsel contained instructions from Moscow. Borne were full ofl figures which could be decoded through Cray’s “Elegy.’ Others had been written in invisible ink. /
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17023, 7 August 1929, Page 11
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90MOSCOW AGENT AS BOOKSELLER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17023, 7 August 1929, Page 11
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