REVELATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1920, Page 5

REVELATIONS.

SOVIET AND NEWSPAPER. BELP FOs LONDON JOURNAL ; AMAZING DISCLOSURES. By Telegraph,—Pros Assn.—Copyright. Revived' August 22, 5,5 p.m. '* London, August 19. Ike messages relating to the Daily Hftffla were circulated by the Admiralty, States they intercepted the code font and successfully decoded the defpatches.

Mr. Lansbury (tie editor of the Daily states it is untrue tba£ the Paily Batald received Chinese bonds, directly or indirectly. The paper has frequently been threatened with a complete stoppage owing to'the shortage of paper, and in the circumstances, suggestinga trade boycott, it was natural to the.gubjeot in Stasia, which pOWWKa tMODOendou supplies. He hoped to hay paper in Russia when industry Vaf and lie left a memorttAnai .& Moscow stating definitely that, any; transactions now or in the future nrast be such as could be put on Ifcwly .Herald's books, and be open {grille light of day. The Daily Herald, in a detailed reply to the Admiralty compilation, declares that po money or newsprint was ever tecilffed ffoln the Bolsheviks, or any other Government. The Herald pub- > HACfr-ft list of its news-print contracts for the past nine months, also the names .. the shareholders and debentnreOMdere, tad suggests that the decoding is either erroneous or per- - MESSAGE IN DETAIL. ' tte' roer complains editorially that &• Ata&alt; f. while supplying other utanpeirs, did not supply the Daily Hfiiu wjfih a copy of the messages, tl»ujiandi(»pping it. and suggests that jW Wrahflnrat deliberately waited untll Parliament rose before circulating the ■ its object being to prejudice Lftjboir'a "Council of Action" and assist tM pro-war fatty. Mr. Lansbury cays the Bolsheviks Jievejr offered Jum a money subsidy. of "a reliable cornspool*ifct" the newspapers publish a series oCsrirdess messages which passed betWwtiHitcherin, the Bcflshevik Foreign Mliiilfter at Moscow, and Litvinoff, for* IWWf the Bokheyik representative in UiU until expelled. litvinoff, when the vtfessaoes passed, was the Bolshevik n&Mpraltitt at Stockholm. The ma"flSlfeoi ,tl» messages passed when Mr. travelling in Russia in AtMMft Jfotauary, and March, 1920. ■MiagM ware intercepted by ata'lUwa' ! te aewral European countries. , message, from Tchitcherin to IftWMff, on February 11, says: "Lansit particularly anxious to obtain late ia obtaining paper. Lansbury nf. fc «am which he will repay in titte. His losses amounted to £l(f00

, . TALK OF ORDERS. She wfeond mirage, from Tchitcherin ,i»l2tVinolf, on February 23, states: does not wish to depend upon y ftiincfoff, bat wishes commercial tejWlofc*.: Therefore lie wishes to pay * iffaall commission for the credit we are .for' him for purchasing paper. DWwJititib Vill.be sent toßevaL" from Tchitcherin to Litvinoff, •' on February 29, says: "Lansbntjf' will consult yon regarding pablfMtirro in England, ptriirt jrat; who will give him orders, and MjjSflat# the number of copies." The meartge ends by asking: much ivut be sent to pay for LansJjljjjgf ottfara? We will continue to pay ÜBtil the Whole five hun-UNa-torn" i£ paid for. He (Langbury) pay * snill sum as commission." message, from Tchitcherin, to LStvinoff, «n February 29, asks: SukS leaner do yon consider we ought to gfrethe ffer&ld? Luubary teemf particularly anxious to obtain baMf. Would It be cheaper to buy paper MPJMm ia. Swede* instead of mating MgJ* present of money!" This fifth message, from Litvinoff to TchHcherm, on March 30, relates to ptocee<ysgq.«f & Bolshevik which sOught to discusß a resumption of tnuli Motious. litvinoff says he innetttge to the Daily Herald, W<ißf ft»t;a firm tone with the Allies is tsftenturt from the beginning. *??< WK ORGAN."

The foregoing messages are those passing during landmry's stay in Russia. Hose ihki follow passed later. It is pointed out! that. Francis Meynell, s cnctnber of the Daily Herald Staff, obtabttd a passport to Denmark and Scandinavia on May 15, and visited Lityinof at Copenhagen early in July. yw sifth message, from Litvinoff to Tefctthetfn, oa July 7, states: "If we do npl atrppflrt the Daily Herald, which through a fresh crisis, *#®WS#ye to turn 'right trade union.' WaHPHI it acts as if it 6rere_.irar organ. After Lansbury's journey 1$ has gone considerably to the left, and' advocates direct action. He needs fiftjr stauai>d francs for six months, hopes io be on firm ground. I consider the work of the 'Daily Herald especially important for us. I advise that this 'help be afforded from foreign affairs funds, and be payable in several ipttaUoents. The journal has not obtained paper in Stockholm, but has (recejitly ja® six thousand francs from tUk' X Htg an early favorable answer, eMwiialljr because there is so hope of feraftUtfcißg a purely Communist paper."

"SOBSIbY TO TIB HERALD." Hie seVenti-message, from Tchitcherin to Liiyinoff, on July 20, nays: "If you hMahCt enotigh ready money for a subaidy ta tfce Hart Id tell him that at any ratektfbiify Will be paid by those who have authority to organise the financing of iMtitytiona atiroad. The subsidy for the*|rttigffgitton 'of control must be paid The concluding message, from Litvinoff • Tthitchwin, on July 22, states: '1 Jacfb jiveo instrnctiong that Chinese bondswWeh are there ehall be handed ovoT: to tke Herald." Tfc* Baily Express says that a few weefciSgoLitvinoff eent a parcel of 820 OKhttw bonds, worth £12,000, to a Runftui; baak is London, which passed the* to another bank in London for Bale. sab aoala not be completed because it waa neeeuary to eupply the Treasury wMJttU pnroluuer'B name.—-Aus.-N.Z. Ctfle Attn.