Payments by Employees. of Russian Concerns in London, London, June 1.
Replying to questions in the House of Commons to-day, Home Secretary, Sir William Joyn~ son-Hicks, said that inquiries made after the discovery of the bank. notes found in the possession of Trish gunmen, which had passed through Russian banks in England, showed that between July, 1927, and April, 1923, £27,000 had' been' dis-Dursed through Russian banks for Communist parties in Britain. The transactions took the form of an exchange of Bank of England notes for Treasury Notes. A eonsiderable number of the latter had definitely been traced to the Com. munist Party of Great Britain and to its allied bodies. The transactions were carried out by a clerk in the foreign exchange department of the Moscow-Narodny Bank in London and two employees of the Russian trading institution known as the Centrosojus, All three had been dismissed.
The directors of the bank, who disclaimed all knowledge of the transactions, had dismissed other employees who had been implicated in the matter, Replying to a supplementary question, the Home Secretary said that he would submit the matter to his legal advisers and net on their The Trish gunmen mentioned rested on March 21 ion of firearms discovery of to smuggle revolvers by Irishmen), and the Bank of England notes found on them were traced back to a Russian bank in Britain, Subsequent inquiries showed that Russian money was being used in attempts to foment revolutionary action in Britain—Reuter.
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