The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-08-15
|BOLSHEV|K| ARREST
ALLIED CONSULS
The Consulates Desecrated and
American Affairs Are
Turned Over to
SWEDISH AUTHORITIES

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Washington, Aug. l5.-Officlal
dis.atches Yesterday from American
Consul General Poole in Moscow
lifted the curtain for moment on
an;t IA been go ls 0. in MOSCOW
a., l. taled an am Nn. :'a,n u
events
.s,, General Poole, after VII
i, sa,ug ,he violation CT the french
i !,yi,:sh consu!ates and the q
rests of the consuls general ana
te.if (, ltfs, destroyed ] is code Dcok
and papers and turned the afalfs
OF ne american consulate over %,
the swedish consul, at the same
tine demanding safe conduct from
the country for himself and his as
suclates.
Fyepch and British citizens have
been arrested and the BolshevlKl
have announced they would hold
tne,n as hostages because OF the at
tack on the Soviet government py
pritish and French troops at Arch
angel.
Members of the French and BRIT
isa military missions stationed III
Moscow were refused permission to
leave the country in spite OF pre-
vious promise of safe conduct. u
is possible that since the sendlng OF
Consul General PoOles telegrams
which began on July 20 and contln-
ued until August 6, the SITUATION
may have changed, because it is re-
| ported that Lenine and Trotzky, the
Bolsheviki leaders, have fed ano
|the Soviet government in Moscow
NAV have been overthrown. In tha'
event Mr.. Poole and the entente
missions may find themselves IN q
better situation. But should the
situation be unchanged the Amerl
can consul generals action in turn
ing his office over to Sweden, VII
not affect the status of other Amer
lean consuls in Russia as they nave
been working with the local gov
ernments throughout Russia where
pro-ally feeling is strong.
The story is stold in sequence IL
the State Departments official an
nouncement of its advices from Mr.
Poole. 1t follows:
1.-THE Department of State ha'
now received several telegram'
from Consul General Poole at MOS
COW concerning recent events in tina
1 city. Following is a summary o
the kilograms:
"One of Ithe telegramsI similar
in character to a previous message
received through other channels
states that or July 29 Lenine de
clared repeatedly before an olflcia
|, gathering of the Soviets that stat
, of war existed between the Russian
republic and the allied powers. BE
cause of this the diplomatic repre-
sentatives in Moscow of Great Brit
ain and the consular representative
of France, Italy and the Unite'
States visited the commissariat 10
foreign affairs and inquired If Len
; ines declaration should not be con
sidered a declaration of war, involV
ing the rupture of defacto relation
and the departure of the consuI
Tchitcherin said that it need not b
SO understood, that 1t was state 0
: defence rather than state OF wal
and that the government desired t
continue its relations with the en-
tente as 1t did with Germany unde
analogous circumstances.
THE consuls demanded that t
be acceptable any explanation mus
be publicly made by the head of tn
government himself. They ais
pointed out that the question wa
inseparable from that of the depar
ure of the former military mission
After having agreed to facilitate tn
4 departure of these persons, in a.
co.dance with international law, tn
government, they said, had raise
absolutely inadmissable objections
The foreign representatives ais
slated that they cold not see
J. this attitude anything bu. confirm'
Il ton of Lenine's declaration II I'll
k existence of state of war. Tchi
d cherin said that he would give a r
J. ply in three days.
d ION the night of August 2, r
t. ply was received from Tchitcheri
10 It stated that inssmuch as Lenine
Is utterances we're made behind close
II doors in a meeting at which an a
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