ESPIONAGE PLOT RESULTS IN 300 ARRESTS
(Received 24, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. The Barcelona correspondent of the Britisli United Press says 300 suspects ineiuding Andres Niu, leader of the Spanish Trotskyists, other leading members of the Trotskyist party and also the former Minister of Justice in the Catalan Government, have been arrested on a, charge of belonging to a vast espionage organisation which is taking advantage of the pligbt of Spain in order to conduct subversive activities. The Independent Labour Party states that an Englishman, Mr John McNair, the party' s Barcelona representative, is among those arrested. He will be charged ' with carrying letters and inoney for the Trotskyist Party. Mr Brockway, secretary of the Independent Labour Party, says that th arrest is presumably a sequel to the repatriation of some wounded and sick members, the money for whom had been taken from Mr McNair and restored, after which the inqident had been thought to be closed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 5
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