ALLEGED SEDITION.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1920, Page 6

ALLEGED SEDITION.

AN OFFICER CHARGED. By Telegraph.— rress Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 12. • Colonel LVsfrange AFulonc. M.P., was remanded, bail being allowed in two surelies of .to(ll) each and bis own recognisance of £IOO. For the prosecution it was stated that the charge arose out of a speech at the Albert Hall, at a meeting of the National Hands-on" Russia Committee and the Communist Party of Britain, in which Colonel Malone stated: ''The day is not far distant when we eau meet here and ask a bl: -ing on the British Revolution. When that day comes woe to the people getting in our way. We must change the present constitution We shall have use for a few lamp posts. What are a few Churchills and Curzons compared with the thousands massacred in Egypt and Ireland?" Notes found in Malone's house showed that the violent passages in his speech were written beforehand.

A large crowd cheered Malone when lie was leaving the court—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

London, Nov. 12. The charge against Lieut-Colonel Malone is sedition.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Lieut.-Colonel L'estrange. Malone is a wealthy man, and a son of the late Rev. Savile L'estrange Malone, and a grandson of Viscountess Milton. He has a distinguished record of service with the R.N.A.S. during the war, and was air representative on the Supreme W T ar Council, Versailles. He was elected Liberal member for East Leyton in 1918. Colonel Malone recently returned from an extensive tour of Soviet Russia, undertaken on his own responsibility. His name was mentioned at the .trial in London recently of a Finn named Veltheim, who was arrested for failing to register as an alien, and was sentenced to s'.v months' hard labor and subsequent deportation. Evidence was given which sliowed that Veltheim was an emissarv of the Moscow International. He was stated to have visited the house of Mr. Malone. The latter, in evidence, stated that lie could not swear that he had met Veltheim and had no knowledge of the prisoner visiting his house, though he admitted that people of all nationalities visited him. A letter was read at the trial, written by Sylvia Pankhurst, who referred in the course of it to Mr. Malone being a member of the council of the British Socialist Party, which was taking steps to absorbth'e Communists.]