REDS SENTENCED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 83, 28 November 1931, Page 5

REDS SENTENCED

>s. Assn.—

NCITING MUTINY "IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC FLEET

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

LONDON, Thursday. e Communists, Shepherd and Al- , charged with attempting to ina mutiny in the navy. were seft^d to-day, the formjar to 20 ths' hard labour and the latter to - years' penal servitude, lison had already served eigh- : months for using a false passin 1927 at Bombay, where he gone to foment Communist agitaiVelations of an alleged attempt kuse a mutiny in the Atlantic t'were made at Portsmouth when Communists, George Allison, aged and William Shepherd, aged 25, p committed for trial with incitto mutiny. The prosecution statthat Able-Seaman Bateman met idlian, Gerald Hutchings at Portswho was not in custody ah jgh- Ke was charged in conunction [■ Allison and Shepherd with cofi®g under the Mutiny Act. Hutehmvited Bateman to have a drink, ^said he was ■ a journalist and ^ a story of the events relating »e Fleet. Bateman suggested' that should meet some more educated 0£\ "whereupon " he : introduced cbmgs to a telegraphist, Bouse- ,• * Hutchings told Bousefield he a member of, the Third CommunInternational and suggested that sefield should address a meeting ac*te fhe men to strike. Bousefield jied that he would be flung out of , ,avy- Hutchings assured him he . d get him work in Eussia. Bouse- . y i'eported the conversation ■ ,i ^Pfain, after which he acted to orders. Bousefield visited L headquarters in Lon- . , ^ "-bere met Shepherd "vvho proI n pay him £100 and his wife j Apt8 ^ waS hnprisoned. He '.on would h'and. to Bateman sL ij . H was proposed I U distribute among the sail-