A WARNING
OPERATIONS OF COMMUNISTS. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) WELLINTON, Monday. Bfeore imposing sentence in the Police Court on men convicted on various charges in connection with the distrubances in Wellington last week Mr E. Page. S.M., briefly reviewed recent happenings and said: "My opinion is that this orgy of window breaking and looting was not. th£ work of genuine unemployed, but of a small band led by members of an organisation of Communists operating in our midst, whose doctrine appears to be .to foster mob voilence and revolutionary disorder. "As to the punishment to be imposed," the magistrate added, "there can be only one answei\ Those who chose to ally themselves with the forces f disorder need not expect lenient treatment in this Court. By our laws, if several people form common intention to prosecute any unlawful purpose, as, for example, the breaking of shop windows and stealing goods therefrom, each of them is a party to every offence committed by any of them in the prosecution of such common purpose."
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3178, 17 May 1932, Page 8
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