ANTI-SOVIET PAID

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1927, Page 3

ANTI-SOVIET PAID

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association

RUSSIAN PROTEST. MOSCOW, May lb

Forty thousand people deiiioiistriltcd ill front of the British mission building, aS a protest against the Amis raid;

SEARCH RESUETS. LONDON. May lb

The “Sketch,” says there are stron indications that documents of supren naval importance to Britain were tl main object of the Arcus search.

large proportion of the information o whi-li the police acted emanated froi recent raids on Soviet centres in Paris which lias become the chief centre o anti-Bolshevik netivtiy by White Bus sinus. Strict watch is now maintaino: at British naval dockyards to wliicl detectives have been dispatched, expoiallv to Chatham and Devonport. The “Sketch” also is informed tha searchers discovered correspondent' implicating certain Commoners.

CAUSE OF RAID

THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT

LONDON. May lb.

All official account of the raid was issued to-night. Jt explains that an important document was missed from the Government Office a few months ago, wherefore detectives have been searching continuously: In cnn.sequenee of information received a few days ago, the police obtained a search warrant under the Official Secrets Act to search Areas Coy. Primarily the order was to ascertain if the missing document was in the building. The work on the safes in the strong rooms continued throughout Saturday, with a powerful apparatus for drilling concrete and cutting steel.

'Jhe “Sunday Express” says three more secret safes were found in another floor, skilfully secreted behind innocent looking paiinelling. Ttio “Express” understands tiie vital document was not found but papers regarded as very important, were discovered. Home are believed to expose the secrets of the Soviet organisation world-wide. Others relate to the Soviet's activities in Britain, The search for translation papers is proceeding day and night, and is unlikely to he completed till the end of the week.

The .Midland Bank statements to the press reports the ten million credit scheme is incorrect. Nevertheless Sir Aliftn Smith interviewed reiterated that an agreement for a ten millions Credit was readied, adding that the regrettable raid carried out at this moment eventually, may do good, hut lias necessarily' delayed the orders which would be placed in Britain as n result of the agreement. The “Observer’s” diplomatic states the ririd lias etlused embarrassment in Downing Street, The Foreign Office was not consulted before the raid. Though bound to bo diplomatically important, serious quarters admit the raid was forced on the Foreign Office, and declare its policy with Russia, at a moment when they had special reasons for letting sleeping dogs lie. It seems if old controversy within Oabinet lias been forced to a climax. -MOSCOW, May 14.

Newspapers continue to indignantly condemn the Arcus raid, termed a gross violation .of Jhe Anglo-Soviet agreement and elementary internatioiial relations.

RUSSIAN VIEWS. MOSCOW 1 , May 14

The “Pravda” declares Aloorgato Street provocation was devised liecause the Pekin provocation had tailed. Only one link in the polity of adventures, sabre rattling may fatally affect the international peace, ft shows the difference of the rapacious policy of British Imperialism and peaceful policy of the Soviet, which depends on peace and by all means in its power desires to carry oil trade. On the contrary Britain is preparing a rupture.

The Soviet “Economic Jlaskaia .Jizu” opines that it confirms Britain’s systematic activities for a blockade of the Soviet, but is powerless to induce the Soviet to abandon the chosen path of economic co-existence and competition in the capitalistic world.

A MOSCOW REQUEST. LONDON, .May I'. In consequence of tlie Aims raid, the Moscow Council of Commerce and Industry adopted a resolution requesting the Ministry of Commerce to transfer ten millions sterling worth ol orders from Britain to other countries.

THE RAID RESULT. LONDON. May !•',

Sir W. Jo.vnson-Hicks holds a special conference with police and and secret service chiefs to-morrow morning, when he will examine the documents found at Aims. Interviewed, he stated: “f am satisfied the search was justified. I shall make a statement in answer to questions in the Commons to-morrow. ] cannot say whether I shall he able to disclose the nature of the discoveries.” The “Daily Express” understands Scotland Yard found evidence of conspiracies, lists of lied agents in Thitain, names of agitators who received payments from Russia during the general strike ,but no trace of the missing state documents.