The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-23
PLOT
 TO CAUSE RIOT
 OF BLUEJACKETS

A Bolshevik attempt to incite Brit ash bluejackets at Rosyth Naval Base to mutiny has failed ignominiously.
 As one who was among the first to be officially employed in tracking spies at Rosyth, I have reason to know that the latest attempt to spread dissatisfaction In the fleet and incite the lbuejackets to the mutiny of the present is one of the clumsiest yet attempted.
 Yet it was a direct bid on the part of the Bolsheviks to win over the sailors of His Majesty's ships. Let me state my reasons why this attempt was doomed to failure.
 The great majority of the ships and crews now lying at the Forth have had personal experience of the result of Bolshevism. Not even yet have tho appearance of the surrendering German ships now at Scapa Flow been effaced from the memory of the men who had to do with their sur render.
 Rosyth is city without slums and without aged poor. It Is a city where everyone is well-fed and well-clad. IL is a dream city for children. There is no city like it in the United King dom
 There are other reasons. but the above will show that the dream couched in such extravaga pt. language by the Bolsheviks in GrSp panphlets which were scattered at Rosyth to se- duce the British Fleet were bound to fail. when instead of dreams the practical results faced them daily.
 Tn the extravaEantly worded papers which were found the Bolshevilss as- sured the .bluejackets that If only they would mutiny their lead would be taken by the laboring classes at the naval base.
 As walked through the wide streets of this garden city. I looked at the young trees which line the thoroughfares. and went forward in imagination several years in advance. I could see regular dream city-a city which even the widest imaEir- inRs of labor would not dared to have pictured even two or three years ago.
 To Tailoring man" with over $15 week I put the question. as he stood on his own little plot puffing his pipe contented1y. DO you think Bolshev- ism would improve matters here?''
 Slowly taken the pipe from his mouth and splitting viciously. he re- TndTkeus bOiS1eNlSTl! IJO IHeSe fools thirk they can teach us Scots men the way to freedom
 While the authorities have full con- fidence in the loyalty of the seamen. they have taken no risks. A thor ouEhs inquiry into the whole matter has been instituted. and orders were flown from the flagship that everyone directly or indirectly associated with the navy should at once hand over any literatIre which was discovered.
 stumbled upon a coterie of blue Jackets who were discussing the Bol- shevfk literature, and it would be only truth to say that contempt, in- disnation and jocu1arity were the felings which such stuff raised fin the minds of the men.
 Some of them laughed and called to mind the appearance of the German mutineers on some of the ships at Scapa Flow as they had last seen them. Others were indignant. and believe that if any culprits had fallen into these mems hands they would have been summnrily dealt with
 One man has been arrested on sus- ,picion of having something to do with the matter. He protests his inno- cence most indignantly, but he is be- ing kept under strict guard until cer- tain inquiries have been completed.
 All is well with the fleet at Rosyth-