THE NEW GUARD
PLOT REVEALED TO OVERTHROW PARLIAMENT. ( iustraliau Press Association! SYDNEY, June 16. In connection with their conviction and sentences for the night attack on Garden at hhs home prior to the elections, the appeals of more of the New. Guardsmen were to-day hoard. ,Two more of tlie appeals were demis ed. Two are still unheard. . ..
During the proceed l ngs to-day, Detective Alford told the .story of . fiis investigations into the activities,, of. tlie New Guard. He said that the New Ciiitil'd consisted of a hundred thousand partly drilled and or mod men, with the avowed object of throwing armed battalions of new guardsmen across the approaches to Sydney and plunging the city into darkness., Ajj p given signal, they would overthrow the State Parliament, take possession of all .of the Government deportments and set up a dictatorship. That Jbcision wrs reached by the New Guard Council on March 3, but, because certain of' the members were unwilling to agree with the scheme, it • was abandoned.
Detective Alford added that Hie h'id corroborative evidence of the plan, and that the police department had recommended that proceedings should be taken against certain of, the leaders of the Now Guard 'for a seditious conspiracy
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1932, Page 5
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