DANGEROUS ALIEN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 34, 4 November 1920, Page 5

DANGEROUS ALIEN

SUPPOSED BOLSHEVIK COURIER

TO BE DEPORTED FROM ENGLAND

By Telegraph-Press Aseoci&tlon-OopyrlrM London, November 2. Veltheiin, the Finn who was arrested at Hainpstead for failing to register as an alien, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and ordered' to be deported. Prisoner admitted he was a revolutionary. A manual was found among Jus papers for the instruction of olhccr.s in a British Bed Army. Another document showed tliab .-C2185 had been spent m acquiring firearms, machineguns, and bombs. Jlle police gave evidence about another letter from Sylvia Pankhurst to a wellknown Russian revolutionary, in which she stated that the Communist Party was not large enough or intelligent enough to make capital out of the situation. Sylvia Pankhurst added that stie spoke to Colonel Malone, M.P., who was a member of the Council of the British Socialist Party, and the latter was; now taking steps to absorb the Communists. She stated that the Moscow Inernationalo had promised her ,£3522. A 'node letter found on Veltheim asserted' that it was impossible to successfully do anything in Ireland, or negotiate with the Republican Mission, without money. At present he was usinir .£3OO sent to Irish unions while waiting for uews.

Colonel Malono, in his evidence, stated he could not swear that he knew, Veltheim. _ He had no knowledge of" prisoner visiting his house. 'He was absent at, the time. He admitted thai people of all nationalities visited him.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

rVeltheim was arrested at Hampstead as a supposed secret courier of tho Bolshevik Government, engaged in bringing letters and- money to England. T)i« police 6tated that ho was a most dangerous undesirable, and manifestly had been acting between the revolutionists in England and Russia. Among his papers was found a_ letter from Sylvia Pankhurst to Lenin, in which she said thai: England was not yet ready for revolution. but was moving swiftly in that direction. Accused was seen in company" with Miss Gilbertson, a British Communist, leaving the home of Colonel L'Estrange Malone, M.P. Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested on a charge of seditious publications in. tho "Workers' Dreadnought" calling on tho masses to revolt or destroy Parliament, and was sentenced to 6ix months' imprisonment.] BOLSHEVIKS REMOVED FROM STEAMER Copenhanon, November S. The "National Tidende" reports that the sleamor Ariadne, bound from Stockholm to Holsingsfors, was stopped by a British cruiser, and eight Russian Bolshevik passengers were removed.—Aus.> N.Z. Cable Assn. NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR COUNCIL REJECT SCHEME FOR OVERTHROW OF CAPITALISM. Sydney, November 3. Mr. Garden, secretary of the Labour Council, announced a combination of the Socialist Party and tho Industrial Workers of the World .under tho title of "Tin* Communist Party," the aim being tocontrol unionism and to endeavour to overthrow Capitalism. The Socialist Labour Party disagreed with tile scheme, and expelled Mr. Garden.—Press Assn.