The Washington herald., 1920-12-02
SAYS REDS Aid
REFORM RUSSIA
Czarist General Points Out
Terrorism in History Of
Great Nations.
By RAYMOND G. CARROLL.

NEW YORR, Dec. l. Distance
smooths away defects and. with gen.
tie hands, rounds every form into
grace. l have just been talking
with Gen. NJ. S. Yassukovitch, late
of the Imperial Russian army.
Strange as it may seem, he recog-
nizes Lenine and Trotsky as step
ping stones to the new Russia
This is the hour of the gray Rus
sia." he said in the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel. Tomorrow and II is spring
for my beloved country-the first
warm day will put the whole win
ter to flight Nothing has hap
pened to Russia that has not come
into the life of France. England
and every other important nation"
Gen. Yassukovitch. different from
most Russians of the Czarist re-
gime. does not recount the deeds
of violence of the Borshevists. His
speech is untouched by harshness.
He sees his Russia in the process
of a social revolution. and with
OuI ne pEColNAs Sti 1aih
covery from madness.
Won RinteIen Back.
Franz Won Rintelen. the German
spy. is again in New York City.
In the early months of 1917 that
would have caused a
stir. Three years, and what a diff
ference, Then Won Rintelen was
the master director of a score Of
German agents, numbered among
whom were several beautiful wom-
men. whose. task il was to ensnare
our public officials. Handsome. ar
rogant, this German plotter was
personality to be feared.
Today he comes to the metropolis
of America a broken-spirited man.
For he has been sojourning in the
Federal prison in Atlanta. He is
under $4,000 bond that he will be
gone by January I. Under the care
of friends" he is waiting for the
first ship to take him to a coun-
try which will allow him to pass
through on his way to Germany.
Who Is Won Rintelenf II any Ger
man knows his real antecedents he
has not revealed them. Nor will any
naught the rumors that he is in re-
ality a member of the Hohenzollern
family itself. He is known to have
been an intimate friend of the ex-
kaiser and a welcome visitor at the
palace. He was a captain in the
German navy at an early age. and
he is known to have married the
daughter and heiress Of the great
banking family Of Kaufman in Ber-
lin. Officially Won Rintelen was on
the stan of Admiral Won Tirpitz
when the war started.
Posed as Red Cross Man
We first saw him around New
York in the later part of 1915. He
came to us ostensibly as a worker
for the German Red Cross. But his
coming soon became associated with
the calling of mysterious strikes,
the blowing up of vessels and the
destruction of munition plants en-
gagged in making supplies for the
allies.
Football Like War.
Gen. Robert Georges Nivelle. de-
fender OF the French citadel of Yer
dun. attended the Army Navy foot
ball game with Gen. Pershing. A
young military aide asked the French
general what he thought Of football
as played in the United States.
"C'est lie guerre," he answered.
Yes, 1t is very much like the war.
TIE same strategy, the same spirit.
On ne passe pas said our own
Marshal Petain at Verdun. II is the
same here in football"
Marcus Loew is building his State
Theatre at Forty-fifth street and
and the structure Is al
ready mounting high into the sky.
1t has the early atmosphere of
giant edifice.
TT is the 'high-low' building" re-
marked former Lieut.. Com. welles
Hawkes., of the navy. making the
pun which is going to stick. Il
The girl-iess telephone has come
to New York. Early this spring
three exchanges are to be opened
where the caller on q telephone will