INTERCEPTED MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1921, Page 4

INTERCEPTED MAIL

PARTS, Feb. 8. High French officials and judicial authorities spent Sunday and to-day examining the huge mass ol Communist documents which has been siczed at the houses of suspects. Among them, it is stated, .have been found despatches intended for Soviet soldiers in London and Berlin, as well as reports destined for Moscow. For months none of these had been entrusted to the ordinary post. A complete network is revealed of special emissaries travelling regularly all over Europe. Bank pass hooks, recording transactions covering several months, are in the hands of the police, and all tho outward payments recorded are being carefully traced.

Tlie police have already a long list of ■antes, including, it is believed, several persons well known in Paris society who have endorsed cheques from the Abramovitoh-Zalewski Communist funds. They will Ik* called upon to explain how they used the money. Afucli of it is thought originally to have come from German hankers, not from Moscow, while other amounts have boon traced to subscriptions to the Red movement from French and British sympathisers.

The police have arrested a Frenchman 1 with an English name, M. Williams, ’ who, it is alleged, is the manager of an organ originally called the Conscript, which disseminated anti-militarist views. A whole issue of the paper has been seized, as well ns nearly a ton of Communist posters and pamphlets

The French Army secret service has been making a close investigation of conditions in and near Paris.