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Wairarapa Age, 18 February 1927, Page 5

MOSCOW’S LATEST

AN ALLEGED ANTI-SOVIET PLOT. BRITISH MINISTER ACCUSED. DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED. (Received Thursday, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 17. The British United Press reports that, a sensation has been caused in Moscow by the publication in the newspapers “Pravda” and “Izvestia” of documents purporting to show that Sir W. Joynson-Hicks and other prominent British personalities are in league against the Soviets with Sablin, a former ambassador under the Tsar, now resident in Paris. The “Izvestia” represents that Tsarist diplomats are acting as agents and accomplices of the British tPehards. The “Pravda” declares that certain groups in England are plotting against the Soviet, and. enumerates individuals and organisations, including British bankers, and evem heads of Anglican and Catholic churches. This so-called exposure purports to reveal the secret springs of anti-Soviet work in England. It declares that Mr. Winston Churchill an«l Lord Birkenhead support a group who are trying to break up Anglo-Russian relations. It is even alleged that an appeal was made for money from Russian Royalists for a campaign to clear out the Reds. Both the “Pravda” and the “Izvestia,” it is reported, publish photographs of the documents, allegedly proving their assertions.—(A. and N.Z.)