RUSSIAN METHODS.
BRITISH SAILORS GAOLED WITHOUT TRIAL. 'MR. HAVELOCK WILSON’S CHALLENEGE. LONDON, February 28. Mr. Havelock Wilson, general secretary of the Seamen’s Union, is annoyed with Mr. A. J. Cock’s Moscow friends over the ten months-’ imprisonment in Russia without trial of a/'British seaman named David Scott. -Mr. Wilson asked Mr. Cook to inquire of “his spiritual home” to ascottain the cause. Mr. Cook wrote asking Mr Wilson his object in calling attention to the matter, whereupon Mr. Wilson wrote challenging him to defend the action of his Moscow friends at a public debate in Edinburgh. “Think it over, Cook,” said Mr. Wilson. “You’ve been making wild, extravagant statements for years about Moscow. My health is not good, but it is my duty to inform the workers of the real truth about Russia. The oddsXare in your favour. I am 69, you are 40; but I think some of us olcb’uns can give, a good run for your money.”—(A. and N.Z.) MB. COOK DECLINES. — (Received Tuesday, 7 p.m.). LONDON, February 2S. Mr. Cook has declined Mr. Havelock Wilson’s challenge to debate the Scott case.—(A. and N.Z.).
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Wairarapa Age, 2 March 1927, Page 7
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