BOLSHEVIK SPY IN BRITAIN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18017, 4 November 1920, Page 9

BOLSHEVIK SPY IN BRITAIN.

SYLVIA PANKHURST'S ACTIVITIES. LONDON, Nov. 2. Veltheim, a Finn, who was arrested for failing to register as an alien, was sentenced to sis months, and thereafter to be deported. The prisoner admitted that he was a revolutionary. A manual was found among his papers for the instruction of officers in the British Red Army. Another document showed that £2185 sterling had been spent in acquiring firearms, machine-guns, and bombs. The police gave evidence about another letter from Sylvia Pankhurst to a well-known Russian revolutionary, in which she stated that the Communist parly was not large enough or intelligent enough to make capital out of the situation. Sylvia added that she spoke to Coli onel Le Strange Malone, MP., who iis a member of the Council of the ' British Socialist Party, and the latI ter was now taking steps to absorb i the Communists. Sylvia stated that ; Moscow Internationals had promised her £3522 sterling. A code letter found on Veltheim asserted that it was impossible to successfully do anything in Ireland or negotiate with the Republican Mission without money. He was at present using £3OO sent to the Irish Unions while awaiting news. Malone gave evidence that he could not swear that he knew Veltheim, and had no knowledge of the i prisoner visiting his house. He was | absent at the time. Witness admitted that people of all nationalities visited him. I It was cabled on the 26th October I that a youth believed to be a Bolshei vik spy was charged with failure to I register as an alien. The police stated that he was very dangerous, and was an undesirable alien, manifestly acting between the revolutionaries in England and Russia. Among his papers was found a letter from Sylvia Pankhurst to Lenin, in which she said that the situation in England was very acute. The country was not yet ready for revolution. but was moving swiftly in that direction. Ex-soldiers were armed and drilled, but these things must not be exaggerated, as they were not formidable yet- The letter also made several references to the campaign for seizing factories, and recounted how members of her party broke up the meeting addressed by Mr George Lansbury, the editor of the Daily Herald, because he advised peaceful methods. The accused youth has been seen in company with Miss Gilbertson, a British Communist, leaving the home of Colonel Le Strange Malone, M.P. He gave no name, and was remanded.