RED RUSSIAN MONEY

Taranaki Daily News, 21 April 1928, Page 13

RED RUSSIAN MONEY

SUPPLY ALL OVER BRITAIN BANK NOTES DISTRIBUTED PLAN TO PROMOTE REVOLT HOME SECRETARY’S CHARGE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 20, 8 p.m. A. and N.Z. London, April 20. “I have the most complete evidence in my possession that a large number of Treasury notes from a Russian bank here passed into the possession ofrthe Communist Party and thence to Communist organisation in all parts of Britain,” said Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, when speaking at Leamington. “There is a direct chain from the Russian bank to Communist agitators in all the great cities in this land. “I have warned the Labour Party over and over again that they are accepting help from the Communist Party, and they have declined to heed my warning that behind the Communists there is a movement to destroy the trade unionist organisations and Labour leadership and constitutional government. “What right,” he asked, “has Russia to go to Geneva with talk of world peace while her emissaries, with her gold, are seeking to destroy Governments with which she professes to be on friendly terms?” The chairman of the Moscow Narodny Bank and the Bank of Russian Trade, the only Russian banks in London, have written to Sir William Joynson-Hicks denying any dealings with Irish gunmen. In the House of Commons, Major Kendersley asked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that the Bank of England notes found on persons, described as Irish gunmen, arrested before Easter for being in illegal possession of firearms, had been traced to Russian banking institutions in this country, he would make inquiries as to whether any moneys standing to the credit of Russian trading organisations In this country were being used in attempts to foment and organise revolutionary action here.

The Home Secretary replied that Major Kindersley’s information was correct. He was constantly making inquiries and .was satisfied that Russian money was being used in the way suggested.