FOMENTING REVOLUTION

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17384, 21 April 1928, Page 7

FOMENTING REVOLUTION

MONEY FROM RUSSIA. MINISTER MAKES DISCLOSURES. RUSSIAN DENIALS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) {British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. April 19. The chairmen of the Narodny Bank of Moscow and the Rank of Russian Trade —the only Russian banks in London—have written to the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks. denying having had any dealings with Irish gunmen. The' Minister, speaking at Leamington, repeated his statement that a Russian bank in Britain was subsidising crimes and seeking to destroy constitutional Government. "What right has Russia to go to Geneva with talk of world peace while her emissaries, with her gold, are seeking to destroy the Governments with which she professes to be on friendly terms?" asked Sir William. " 1 have the most complete evidence in my possession that a large number of Treasury notes from a Russian bank here passed into the possession of the Communist Party and from it to Communist organisers in all parts of Britain. There is a direct chain from this Russian bank to Communist agitators in all the great cities in this land. I warned the Labour Party over and over again that they were accepting help from the Communist Parly, it declined to heed my warning that behind the Communists there is a movement to destroy the trades unionist organisations and Labour leadership." LONDON, April 19.

In the House of Commons .Major G. M. Kindersloy, Conservative member lor Hitchin, Hertford, asked the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, about some Rank of England notes found on the persons described as Irish gunmen who were arrested before E-asler on a charge of being in illegal possession of firearms. He wanted to know if the notes had been traced to Russian banking institutions in England. If so, would the Minister make inquiries as to whether any money standing to the credit of Russian trading organisations in England was being used in attempts to foment and organise revolutionary action here. Sir William replied that Major Kindersley's information was correct. He was constantly making inquiries, and he was satisiicd that Russian n oney was being used in the way suggested.