NEW REVOLUTION URGED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17738, 26 March 1932, Page 8

NEW REVOLUTION URGED

REDS ACTIVE IN SPAIN RUSSIA SUPPLIES THE TOOLS (Elec. Tei. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received March 2(1. 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 2d. The Times’ Madrid correspondent says tluil Russian agents and Oominiiiiisls are seeking to make Spain and Portugal inio Red nails. There is no great Communist party in either country, nevertheless (lie socialist, syndicalist, anarchist, Communist .and workingmen’s groups have agreed to fish in troubled waters, the Russian representatives supplying llie bait and tools, including money, arms and bundles of propaganda. The bookshops are crowded with i run slut ions of Russian Socialist duel l i lies.

The Communist congress, held at Seville, where the famous Jiojy Weak ceremonies were suppressed, was upliil.de for llie violence of the language of (lie speakers, including several deputies win: declared “(lie recent revolution farcical, resulting i.u bloodier pppre.vsjjou .than Alfonso’s regime’? and calling nit 'peasants and factory hands to unite for a new and redder rebellion. There are two reasons why Communism fails in Spain—firstly, 1 lie Spaniards’ common sense, and, secondly, (lie strong army of heavily reinforced police equipped and specially I rained for the \vork. it is even more doubtful if the milder Portuguese are accessible to Communist doctrines.