SOVIET GOLD IN BRITAIN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 15 June 1926, Page 7

SOVIET GOLD IN BRITAIN.

Demand For Stoppage. AIOSCOAV REDS DENOUNCED. Bf —Press Association-—Copyright. Bydnoy '* Sun ” Bfrvico, (Received June 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 13. "The Daily Mail,” in an editorial, says: “The nation is becoming anxious to know ‘ what influences are accountable for the Government’s failure to stop the flow of Soviet gold to assist tho strike. The Soviet leaders, without exception, are thieves and murderers, and propagandists of robbery, atheism and murder. We are sinking below eternal law when we deal with men who openly exalt evil and crime. The gold should be stopped,- and the Soviet’s representatives also ought to be turned out bag and baggage.’ ” The Order Paper in the House of Commons bristles with questions regarding the Russian contribution to the miners. The Communist newspaper “Sunday Worker,” in a message from Moscow, discloses, on the authority of Tomsky (president of the Council of Trades Unions) that the money was not paid the Trade Union Congress because an English bank refuses to effect the payment of £IOO,000 to the General Council, acting under instructions from the British Government.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S PROTEST. REPLY BY TRADE CONGRESS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, June 12. In connection with the British Note to Moscow, in regard to the Soviet’s offer of money to the Trade Union Congress during the general strike, the Trade Union Congress has sent a letter to Air Baldwin denying that it ever received money from the Soviet Government, and most strongly protesting against the attempts to misrepresent the efforts of Russian Trade Unionists to help the British workers to pursue legitimate Trade Union activities, and use them in such a way as to seriously endanger the relationship between his Alajcsty’s Government and the Union of Socialist Soviet republics.