COMMUNIST REBELS
ROUND-UP IN BRITAIN. TWELVE MEN ON TRIAL. SERIOUS INDICTMENTS. LONDON, Oct. 23. Twelve Arrested Communist leaders were charged at Bow Street with unlawful conspiracy to publish seditious libels and to incite to mutiny. There was a large crowd outside the Court. A section of the crowd sang 4 ‘The Reg Flag.” During a scrimmage the police took into custody a man carrying a red flag. Mr. Tom Mann was present in Court. Sir Triavers Humphreys, prosecuting, said that accused were prosecuted as leaders and principal executive officers of two illegal organisations, namely tho Communist Party of Great Britain and the Young Communist League, which received its orders from Moscow. Tho prosecution’s view was that all persons disseminating the doctrine of Communism were liable to prosecution for sedition. Communism as explained by tho accused was illegal, because it involved tho forcible overthrow of tho Government, tho creation of class war, and tho seduction of the armed forces of tho Crown from allegiance.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19438, 26 October 1925, Page 8
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