THE RED PLOT IN AMERICA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15970, 12 November 1919, Page 5

THE RED PLOT IN AMERICA.

SUCCESSFUL POLICE SAID

TONS OF LITERATURE SEIZED

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, Received November 12. 9.10 a.m.

NEW YORK, November 11

Seven hundred policemen and State Federal agents raided seventy-three Radical headquarters in tho metropolis. They arrested .five hundred, and seized tons of literature. The Radicals arrested include Jim Larkin, the Irish agitator. The majority of those arrested were charged with criminal anarchy. Senator Lusk, who had charge of the Radical raids in the city, in statements said: We established the fact that the Communist party in the L’nited States received substantial contributions here and abroad. The Communist movement, however, started in Germany, not Russia. It has been completely determined that the Red Government of Russia established five hundred Radicals, whom Germany shipped via Switzerland to Russia. These organised Red Guards gave mauy Russian securities. Later he announced that although more than a. thousand Radicals had been arrested in New York, only thirty-five had been detained charged with criminal anarchy.