Communist “Der Tag”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 727, 29 July 1929, Page 9

Communist “Der Tag”

RED RISINGS ON THURSDAY Serbs Battle with Police | - > Amazing Letter Sent to Sydney SIMILTAX EOUSLY with reports of a world-wide Communist disturbance on August 1, come reports of a fatal battle between Beds and the police in Serbia, of great t excitement and police activity in Paris, and of an amazing letter received by Bolshevik agents at Sydney. ( United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) ( United Service)

Reed. 10.57 a.m. BELGRADE, Sun. As a precaution against a Communist rising that is being planned throughout Europe on August 1, the police surounded a secret meeting of Reds in ah hotel in the village of Samobar, and ordered the Reds to surrender. They were met with a stream of bullets. There was a fierce fight. Three Communists were killed and three wounded. Several of the policemen, were wounded. LONDON, Saturday. It is reported that Paris is aflame with excitement in consequence of the determined efforts of the Communists to frustrate the Government’s resolve to prevent disturbances on August 1. The wire connecting the Prefecture of Police with military headquarters and the six barracks of the Republican Guards was cut with the object of paralysing the forceful stoppage of the demonstrations. The police are redoubling their vigilance. They raided the offices of the Communist newspaper “Avant Garde’* and seized

thousands of copies of the paper said to contain incitements to revolt. “The Times” reports that a firm of London shipowners received a copy of a Soviet manifesto which was distributed among the crew of one of its big ships. This manifesto commanded a general stoppage on August 1 and denounced the British Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, as “a friend of the King, who is a champion of British Imperialism.” ACTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA Reed. 9.20 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. In connection with the 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 the reservists and wounded pensioners, and destroy the institutions of the bourgeois class.