Alleged Author's Charge of Gross and Crude Falsifient London, Oct. 26, A remarkable communique has: been issued by the Labour Party Headquarters, categorically deser ing as untrue, firstly that the lett attributed to 'M, Zinovief? had been Miseussed by the Cabinet, secondly. that it was intercepted i the post, photographed and delivered to the Communists in the usual way, and thirdly, that Labour candidates have been instructed not to talk bout the Russian Treaty.
The commicriqné states that the obviously contradictory statements of the Foreign Office and Mi. Rakovsky regarding the authentic city of the document cannot be finally settled until after the election and Me, MacDonald's return to the Foreign Office. It invites, the Conservative leaders and the paper first in possession of " copy of the alleged document to be frank with the public and state how they came into oppostossion of it, The commeiqné adds that the whole circumstances surrounding the Zinovicll letter are regarded vith the deepest suspicion in Labour quart It comments on the singularity of the fact that copies of the letter were in possession of a London daily paper and of the Conservative headquarters: before it was issued by the Foreign Office to the press. It saya that while the question of the authenticity of the document remains open, there can be no doubt whatsoever that the vigorous note to M. Rakovsky one tively disproves the allegation that the, Government ix under the heel of the Communists, Tt concludes by saying that the Note gives a guarantee that Anglo-Russian agreements will he enforced by the expected that Mr. Mae-refer to the letter at Later, M, Zinovieft hax sent a niessage to the Trades Union Congress de-clating that the Tetter alleged to Ye signed by him is a fication. There was not and could not he such a letter, he asserts, The falsification was so crude, he continues, that not even tou Titerate an official of the British Foreign Office could fail to see the falsity of it. It seems, says M, Zinovielf, that 'Secretary Hughes's inurels are ed by someone in England, He denounces it as clearly an election manduvre, and, in conclusion, me vires the 'Trade' Union Congress to sion to visit, Russia to investigate its authentic
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