London, Oct. 23.
The 12 arrested Communist leaders were charged at Bow Street today with unlawful conspiracy to publish seditious libels and to {incite mutiny.
There was a large crowd outside the Police Court, including several fashionably dressed women and many young men and women wearing red badges. A section of the crowd sang "The Red Flag" and during a scrimmage the police tovic into custody a man carrying a red flag.
Mr, Tom Mann was present in court.
Sir Travers Humphreys, prosecute ing, said the accused were pro-secured as the leaders and principal executive officers of two illegal organizations, namely, th munist Party of Great Britain and the Young Communists League, which received orders from Mosco 'The prosecution's view was that all persons disseminating the doctrine of Communism were liable to prosecution for sedition. Communism: as the accused men explained it, was illegal because it involved the' forciple overthrow of Government, the creation of class war, and the seduce tion of forces of the Crown from papers declare that the Minister "of Justice launched a strong attack, on M. Caillaux for not yet having produced a complete plan. M. Cai Jnux put up a vigorous self-defend He refused to resign except upon the result of the vote of Parliment. Addressing M. Painlevé, the Finance Minister is reported to have sai Mituation "as. reveated" by. "recen tt cancels' arty demonstrations. Being on-|\ The case "was adjourned ill Winced thet an urgent for. was Tuerday: necessary for national, restoration, Which could' only' be pursued with The "Empire Rebel" the certainty of a stable majority, Oct, 27, the Government unanimously deed: 4 ato tender their resignation to the pA, publication enti President.
"1 will leave with you, my de Prime Minister." The opinion in lobby circles is that a crisis is inevitable later, With reference to the newspaper reports of yesterday's Cabinet meet if the Ministry of Finance has taken the unusual step of issuing a com miuniqué in which it denies that Mi. Caillaux urged upon the Cabin necessity for fresh inflation or any Minister urged M, Caillaux limit the scope of the speech he will ake here to-morrow. The commuriqué adds that M. Caillaux naturally wil not refer fo plane not yet fully discuss 1¢ Cabinet.
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