POLISH PLOT
HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS
HIGH! STATE OFFICIALS INVOLVED
“RED” - SCHEME FOR REVOLUTION “SCOTCHED”
(United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received Jan. 17, 6.55 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 16. The Daily Mail’s Warsaw correspondent reports that the police having' arrested 120 persons including three Parliamentarians and several high State officials, claim that they have “scotched” a huge scale Communist plot to cause a revolution in Poland. Hundreds of other arrests are being made throughout Poland. Large stores of ammunition have also been seized. It is alleged that the plotters' have been receiving large sums of money from Moscow.-Sen. (Received Jan. 17, 5.5 pm.) WARSAW, Jan. 16. Following on the arrest of three deputies, the Govei'nment has arrested lour hundred Poles chiefly in Vilna on charges of conspiring in the interests of Soviet Russia. Those arrested include clergymen and bankers suspected of distributing Soviet money among Communist oraganisations and agents. The conspirators are mostly peasants whose aim is the confiscation of all large estates.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10308, 18 January 1927, Page 5
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161POLISH PLOT HUNDREDS OF ARRESTS Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10308, 18 January 1927, Page 5
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