New-York tribune., 1919-03-12
4 reel Committee
4 Carried News TO
Poles and SIavs
90, 900, ,OaW Friends of Al.
lies Con l'irnt Word of
Amcrica'S Position After
A'misticc, Says C.. Byoir

George Creel, chairman of the Com
mittee on Public Information, who re
Gently has been directing the commit
tees activities in Europe, returned to
America yesterday on the transport
Agamcmnon He was accompanied by
Carl Byoir associate chairman of the
committee, who has been in charge OF
getting the Allies into contact by
wireless with tho G000O.o0O Poles,
Jugo-Slavs and Czccho-Slovaks who
could not be reached by other means.
"rhe work Of the Committee Of Pub
lie Information practically ended in
December,' said Mr.. Crecl. "Arrange-
ments are being made for discontinue
ancc of all the foreign work, and my
only connection with the committee
from March is in relation to the
formal setting up of its affairs am
going to return to private life"
81 cabled a statement to this effect
to America on March H. Mr.. Crcel
added.
The statement has not been made
public by the authorities at Washing
ton
Met tV Blanche Bates
Declining to answer any further
questions, Mr.. Creel hurried down the
gangplank to greet his wife, Miss
Blanche Bates, the actress, who was
waiting in an automobile A customs
official stopped him, and the retiring
head of the Committee on Public In
formation had to argue at length to
convince his captor that he was Mr.
Creel.
In describing his work in getting in
formation to the far away and isolated
nations he was instructed to reach,
Mr.. Byoir said:
TO Reach Friends of Allies
"Aftcr the committee had settled
down to work in Paris it realized that
one of the first things to b. done was
to reach the isolated friends Of the
Allies We started out with the neccs-
sary stalls and succeeded in rebuild
ing the wireless stations ut Cracow.
Poland, Prague, Czecho- -Slovakia, and
Agram, JuEo-SlAvia. These three
countries have population of GO,OO0.-
600 people, who have been cut off from
communication with their friends As
soon as the etatiOns were working the
committee arranged for the scnding Of
daily news dispatches from Lyons and
paria The news chiefly concerned the
pence conference.
con our trips wo carried with us
. 2,60O00 copics Of Amcticn's White
Book, published In five anguagos The
book gavc TO the people we souRht to
reach complete account Of the cir
into the war 1t showed thcsc peoples
sciish reasons.
Poles Need Encouragement
"Thc Poles especially needed our
encouragement 1t is the Poles who
have been lighting to keep Bolshcvism
out Of Central Europe. When the Ger-
mans came out Of Russian Poland
about 100000 German soldiers left be
hind their guns and ammunition, hop
ing they would fall into the hands Of
the Bolshcviki and thus help to stir
up trouble for the Allies. The Poles
went to work TO force this Bolshevism
back into Russia and to keep it there.
They fought along coo mile line
from Bialystock to Brest-Litovosk- to
form buwark against Bolshevism."
Mr. Byoir was decorated by the
King Of Italy with the Order of the
Crown He brought with him the Of
fetal moving picture films Of the rev.
olution in Bohemia against Austria
and of the arrival in Prague Of
Thomas G. Masaryk the first prcsi-
dent Of Czecho- -Slovakia.