SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY.
TRIAL OF COMMUNISTS.
AN IMPORTANT CASE.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received November 21, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 20.
Sir Henry Slesser, concluding a six hours’ speech at the trial of the Communists, who were charged with being concerned in a seditious, conspiracy, said this was one of the most important eases submitted to a British Jury for many years. On the decision depended the liberties and opportunities for men to write and express their opinions for many years to come. Sir Henry Slesser called only one witness, who testified as to purchasing at His Majesty’s stationery office copies of the Government report on Russia. Defendant, Pollitt, addressed the jury. He was refused permission by the Judge to quote the speeches of Lord Birkenhead, Lord Carson, and Sir W. Joynson Hicks, the Judge remarking: “I cannot have their seditions mixed up with yours.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16655, 21 November 1925, Page 7
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