Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-20 | Page 1 | Radicals Scots to Spring Coup Rumors Say

RADICAL SCOTS TO SPRING COOP, RUMORS SAY Communists to Seize Coal Pits, Is Word to British Newspapers LONDON, Sept. 20. Extraordinary rumors are in circulation throughout Uaharksbhve to the effect that the leaders of t he" Scottish communist movement have planned a jensvitlonal coup to be sprung :it Blantyre. eight hilles southeast of Glasgow, says a dispatch to the Westminster Gazette from Hamilton Srui 1 m.l It is asserted that the cashiers anel officials have been bluntly told that leisure of the co:-l pits is Imminent ind thai It is proposed to establish n , i system of mining controls," the JP patch adds. "The authorities are nol skeptical ( ti e rumors for they ire not unmindful of the undercurrent it work A dispatch almost similar In tone Las been received by the Exchange! 1'e lepra ph