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Communist overtures' to the hour Parly were flatly rejected by Sir Waller Citving, general secretary of the 'Trades Union Congress, at to-day's session of the T: U.C.' at Plymouth, Anthony Dick, a special constable, described how he saw the prisoner's hand in the alr and just managed to knock his arm away and then get hold of him. He did not know, whether any object had left Me-'Mahon's hand when he knocked It away.
Police Constable Maybe gave a dramatic account of the events which occurred from the time the process sion appeared in sight until the King had reached the material spot.
"I happened to glance to the left, and saw the prisoner rushing into the roadway apparently making towards the King," Maybe began.
"I rushed forward and grabbed him by both arms. I saw a shining object fall suder the forelegs of the King's horse."
Mr. Robert Churchill, a gun expert, Identified the revolver. He declared that it was a matter of ease to dlocharge five shots from it in two sec fonds. There was no evidence, he said, that it had ever been fired at Afraid of "Dangerous Game"
MeMuhon's amazing evidence that agents of a foreign Power had paid him to kill the King electrified "the court, The prisoner spoke quietly and nemotionally as he explained the sasan why he carried a revolver. He was afraid, he said, because was playing a dangerous game—oblaining money from one Power and then passing information to the British Government.
MeMahon wrote on a plecs of paper. which was handed to the jury, the Judge and the Attorney-Goner the name of persons in a forel Embassy to whom he was introduced, and who, he alleged, had pald him to assassinate the King.
McMahon agreed that the evidence sivan by witnesses of the incident fon July 16 was substantially true. He declared he threw his pistol along the Eround because he did not wish to shoot. The object of killing the King After many years" of unbridled derision and abuse of the Labour Party, the incongruous spectacle of Communist organizations trying to ingratiate themselves with orguntzed Labour presented, he stid, une of thi most amusing shows of contempers political history.
'A simple explanation of the press ent tactics of the Communists, hi declared, was the obviously abject {allure of their many attempts to capture the Labour movement, Notwithstanding "years of subsidized propaganda, Sir Walter _eontinued the Communist Party in Great Britain was a negligible quantity and had failed utterly to obtain any hold on the mind of the electorate, 'Do not lot us be misled," he Yioned, "by the claim that' the Com= munist Parly represents the workers."
The Liberal Party, Sir Walter proceeded, had ceased io be a cv) able political force, and. the arly was being asked, after years of fighting the Liberalist, re-establish it, "The danger of Fa m in Britain is remote so long Wwe keep our heads," he asserted, The change in Franco, he cuneluul-'d, was caused by the Popular Front ing electoral methods so that they did not ght one another inside the electoral system, but it wash Possible to produce the same conditions in Britain—Reuter
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