SEVEN MEN DETAINED

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 521, 2 August 1932, Page 1

SEVEN MEN DETAINED

Police R*id Communist Offices. BONUS ARMY INQUIRY. (“Star'’ Radio.) (Received August 2, 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 1. The national capital was virtually clear to-night of men who looked as if they might be World War veterans out of a job and here to petition their Government for their cash bonus. In spite of that, agents of the Department of Justice undertook raids on Communists’ headquarters, seized literature and held seven men without bail for examination by immigration authorities in the administration’s drive against a Red menace. Brigadier-General Pelham Glassford will be the first witness to-morrow at a grand jury investigation of Thursday’s disorders, in which Federal troops routed veterans with tear gas and the torch. He asserted to-night that he would demand an inquiry into the failure of General Douglas M’Arthur, Army Chief of Staff, to consult him in any way, although the President, denying martial law, ordered co-operation with the police. Walter W. Water, commander of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, to-day sent a telegram from Camp M’Closkey to all State leaders of the new Khaki Shirts organisations asking them to take political action for payment of the bonus now, when the men need it, instead of later on, and to remain and work in their local communities. Recruits to his Khaki Shirts organisation were urged not to go to the Maryland camp, but to carry on their organisation in their local communities. Waters’s telegram to all State branches of the Khaki Shirts follows : “ We ask the prospective members of the Khaki Shirts to organise and mobilise in their respective com-

munities subject to call. We ask them to go to training in semi-military manner and to exercise the right to suffrage at the November election. The sole purpose of the Khaki Shirts is to ensure the return of the Government to the people.”