REDS IN LONDON.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1920, Page 3

REDS IN LONDON.

BRIEF SPELL OP NOTORIETY By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. London, Sept. 15. R*d Army propagandists carried out their first coup in London, but ii was not of a very awe-inspiring character Several hundred men, under a leader who proclaimed himself a Bolshevik, forcibly entered the Labor Exchange at Hnrksden, carrying a portable platform, and began to hold a meeting. Tte police were promptly summoned and ejected the invaders, who did not resist. The leader called out to his followers whom he addressed as tlte "Red Army," to "Form fours,'* and they marched off to the Bolshevik headquarters. Although commercial negotiations have been temporarily suspended, Krassin reports that he has purchased"'an enormous quantity of cloth, valued at £1,000,000 through three Yorkshire firms for the Russian people, who at present are mostly clothed in rags. According to a firm of jewellers, who purchased alleged Russian Crown jewels which were sold to provide funds for the proposed Daily Herald subsidy, they were not Crown jewels. The firm states that it bought them in the ordinary course of business, and was quite unaware of the origin. The price was £30,000. _ The jewels were of poor quality, with bad markings and in a dirty condition. The stone 3 were not imperial jewels,, but were more likely to have belonged to a middle class family. Twg of the biggest stones were yellow ,Cape diamonds. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. /