New-York tribune., 1919-08-13
Former Member of Duma
States He Has DOcumen-
tary Proof Worldwide
Plot Is Based OH Revenge
Arrives Here ON Nasari
u. 5. Army Captain, Also a
Passenger, Declares Men
Abroad Favor a Dry Law

Germany is financing Bolshcvik
propaganda throughout the world. Lor-
ence Pouschine, formerly one of the
six richest men in Russia and mem
Der of the Duma, declared yesterday
upon his arrival here on the steamer
Vasari. NJ. Pouschine added that he
had documentary proof Of his asser-
tioLs.
For one month in 1917 NJ Pouschine
was Governor General of Petrograd
under the Kerensky provisional gov
ernment During the reign of the Car
he was president of the land com
mittee of the Duma and was respons-
Bile for parceling out 10000 small
farms among the peasants
"The question confronting Russia
and the re2t of the world at the pres
ent time he said, "is Bolshevsm. In
England and France this question is
assuming dangerous proportions.
81 have documentary proof that Ger
many is behind the Bolshevik move
ment in all parts Of the world as a pro-
gramme of revenge. Money for Bol-
shevik propaganda and instructions for
using the money so as to get the most
general spread of Bolshevsm is being
received from Germany at the present
moment These things | can prove.
Plan to Overwhelm World
"With Russia the hotbed of Bolshc-
vism. the German influences plan to
overWhelm the rest of the world The
only solution is for all countries to
get together and eXterminate Bolshe-
vism in Russia
Baron Eugene Tersen and Major
t,oOorol 1'haoToro | 81.
panied NJ. Pouschinc. General Lodiien-
sky, who served with the Slavic Red
Cross during the war. is a member of
one of Russia's 300 titled families. He
said NJ. Pouschine's statements were
in nowise overdrawn.
No man is more guilty OF rcspon-
sibllity for Russa's present condition"
the general said than Kcrensky. He
wlfu1!y dIsintegrated the Russ Kan
army by issuing orders which permit
ted the soldiers to remove their own
officers
Following these orders. generals
were summarily executed by small
councils Of their soldiers and many
cases in which soldiers Deliberately
murdered their officers went unnoticed.
Ordered Red Leaders Freed
"When the provisional government
saw C''VtS iCi an pD'>NcNik lctHNGS
to be arrested, Kcrensky fed This
was in July, 1917. Trotsky was ar
rested and Lcnine escaped Later
kerensky ordered the Bolshevik leaders
released and went in an automobile to
the prison where the leader Nahamkcs.
who masqueradcd under the name Of
Steklof,' was, and took this man away
IN his car
"Nercnsky also subsidized Bolshovik
papers, partly with government funds
and partly with the millions cent i'm
Bolshcvik papers, including SOME rad
lcal organs. These things have been
proved. Why Kerensky did these things
remains mystery.'
Major General Lodiiensby has been
in the United States before. lie ard
his wife escaped from Bolshevik
prison in March, 1918. Recently they
have made their home at 3G East. Fifty
seventh Street, where NJ Pouschine viii
remain while he arrangcs 10 bring his
"l1e and five children from England
Farm Tractors for India
Another passenger on the Nasari was
Sumltra Modak, of Bombay. who comes
here to contract for tho shipment of
tractors, other agricultural machinery
and structural steel to India.
The day of the wooden plough has
passed in my country" he said. India
soon will be occupying an equal place
with other nations as Far as production
IS concerned. Agricultural colleges at
bombay and Poona are hard pressed 70
asccomm odatc all the pupils who wish to
learn modern methods Of farming.o
Captain d. l.. Colvin. Of 66l West
18th Street. brought back the s,n-
prslng information that majority of
the men in the army are in favor of +
prohibition. He said he had interviewed
several hundred American officers in
France and found only two opposed to
the dry law, Most OF the men in the
ranks have the same feeling, he said.
K. H. Rankin, a lawyer of Rich /