A NEWSPAPER RAID

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 198, 17 May 1920, Page 5

A NEWSPAPER RAID

.- . ♦ I - MANAGER CHARGED WITH SEDITIOUS' ! CONSPIRACY t - | ARMS FOR IRELAND i ! Auetralian-New Zealand Cable Association. ! (K«c. May 16, 5.5 p.m.) • i ' , London, May 14. i The'police raided' the the offices of • the workers' "Dreadnought" in Pleat ', Street, and arrested Burgess, the rnnn- , ager, on a charge of seditious, con- • epivacy in . connection with the Array. " Other arrests aro expected.—Aus.-N.Z. 1 Cable Assn. "■ ißec. May 17, 0.25 a.m.) London, May 15. Harold Burgess was charged at Bow Street with attempting to cause disaffection amongst tho Irish Guards by supplying and attempting to circulate, literature, including o. pamphlet, "Soviets for the British," Sir Archibald Bodkin, prosecuting counsel, said the defendant picked up three Guardsmen at an hotel, and invited them to dinner. He' talked a'bout Bolshevism and a world revolution. Subsequently, in tho presence of Mis& Sylvia Pankhurst, he asked them to distribute literature. One of the men said he could lay his hands on rifles and machine-guns. Sylvia Pankhurst said sire had trusted friends in Ireland to whom they could bo sent. The police found packages on the premises addressed to the Guardsmen, also a letter from one stating: "We are getting on well. Quite a number of followers.' • ■ _ ' Accused was remanded. Bail was re-fused—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.