New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-28
Officials of Allies
Forced by Guard
To Leave Russia
French Consul General in
Moscow Tells How Party
Was Starved Out by Reds
and Escorted to Finland
Ncar York r ri b u n E

Oretgn IrcSS bureau
Monsieur Grenard, French Consul
General in Moscow, who left that town
October ., has given a long interview to
a representative of the Temps NJ.
Grenard tells of the unheard-of moles-
tations and difficulties to which he
had been exposed, especially since the
landing of Allied troops in Archangel.
He refers to kind of siege which
he, General Lavcrgne, chief of the
French military mission; Nj. Lockard,
semi official diplomatic agent for
Great Britain with the Peoples Com
missaries, and Mr.. Nardop, Consul
General for Great Britain. had to en-
dure when they were having d confer
cncc at the Norwegian Consulate IN
Moscow.
The Red Guard surrounded the house
and requested the party to follow them
to the Kremln. AS the officials re
fused the soldiers entered the Con-
sulate and tried to use force. Only
the most earnest protestations from
the Norwegian Consul, who pointed
out to them the grave offense against
international law they were commit
ting, made the Red Guard retire, but
the house was kept cncircled Al
tempts to induce the members of the
party to leave the Consulate were con
stantly made. No food was allowed to
come to the house and the servants
were withdrawn; even the water pipes
were cut
Sent to Finnish Frontier
Finally, after the settlement Of the
incident with Litvinoff in London, the
Peoples Commissary, Antonoff, ar
rived and declared the Consuls could
leave the country. They were not al
lowed even to call at their houses and
had to leave just as they were. The
party was put into an automobile,
rushed TO a train, and, heavily cscot
ed, was sent to the Finnish frontier,
whore, finally, the foreign representa-
tivcs were free.
To this story the French Consul adds
also the story of Ludovic Naudeau,
editor of a French paper, journal de
Russic," in Moscow. Naudeau had been
arrested in spite of the fact that he
had, As the official BolsheVik paper add
mittcd, criticised the government only
III very cautious and correct way.
All attempts Of the consulate TO in
tcrvcnc failed. The French editor was
put in solitary confinement and kept
every point of view. especially, as the
representative of the American Red
Cross the only person who had been
allowed TO see him-said as regards
sanitary conditions. "Thc Temps calls
on French public opinion to start
action to libcrate a countryman.
Women Sncered and Laughed
THE journal" prints an interview
with Prince Arsene Karageorgievitch.
Il brother Of the Serbian King. The
Prince had been in the service of the
Russian army from the beginning of
the war and had participated in many
hard campaigns. lie tells that in 1916
he had already remarked the spirit of
revolt gaining ground in the army at
stupcndous pace
This propaganda, together with the
rumors spread by Germans that the
Car, instigated by the Czarna, was
about to conclude separate peace,
could not lead to good end. He re-
ters TO prosecutions he has been sub
jected to as an officer and especially
TO hardships he had to endure at the
advent Of the Bolshevik power.
Women became extremely fierce and
sneered and laughed at former officers
and former government officials who
aided by their wives, were compelled
by hunger to take work as newspaper
and cigarette sellers in the streets
Prices for food were extremely high
and only hunger appeased the hatred
and modified the impertinencc Of the
Reds. The BolsheVik refused to issue
passport. and only after long diff
culties Prince karageorgiavitch sue
ceeded in securing one and went to the
Thurman coast, which he reached half
starved, after a journey of eleven days
There was no food in the railway
stations and he had TO live on two
loaves Of bread and two boxes Of
ssrdlncs, which were given to him by
French and Serbian officer
Plot Among Volga Sailors
\ noteworthy declaration is con
tanned in the "Humanite.' The paper
says it dsagrees with "Comradc Rou-
banovich," the editor of a Russian So
cialistic paper in Paris, the "Tribunc
Russo" who had approved Of the inter
yention of the Allied troops in Russia.
The "Humanite" says its attitude has
been defined by the last Congress"
which found the intervention "crim-
mai in principle and dangerous in
results. This last congress declared
itself IN agreement with thu Russian
Ier"tutlon in its entits'
The discipline in the Rcd army must