The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
PLOTS TO BRING
COMMUNISM TO
GREAT BRITAIN
Sylvia Pankhurst's Letter
to Lenine Reveals Connec-
ton With Reds.
SAYS PARTY is WEAK YET
But Sees Situation Moving to
Revolution, With Unem-
plOyed FESTIVE.
Special Cable to TIE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1920, bD TIE New YORK HERALD

Copyright, 1920, By TIE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London. Oct. 80.
Sylvia Pankhurst's direct connection
with the Third (Moscow) Information
ale, as revealed in letter by her to
Nikolai Lenine. Russian Bolshevist
Premier, found on the unidentified
foreigner who was arraigned in the
Bow Street Police Court here last
Tuesday has shed new light on the
activities of the Bolshevilli in England.
II expect to pass six months In
prison." Miss Pankhurst wrote to
Lenine, as was disclosed in the letter
an agent of Scotland Yard found on
the person of the stranger who was
arraigned in the Bow Street Police
Court. Miss Pankhurst was talking
about her arrest for publishing the
Dreadnduoht, a revolutionary organ
containing seditious articles. She was
sentenced to six months Imprisonment
on Thursday. Her letter contains
much evidence Of plotting by her to
introduce communism into Great
Britain.
Letter Found on Courier.
The man upon whom Miss Pank-
bursts letter to Lenine was found IS
believed by the police here to be Finn.
He would give no information regard
ing himself, who was arrested because
he had no alien papers. He was stopped
by the police soon after he left the
home of Col. Malone, NJ. p, who was
In Russia recently and who is known
as q radical. Articles by Col. Malone
for the press were found in an attaches
case which the man who was arrested
carried. Also there were in the case
a manual of field engineering, a field
service book on small arms and adj
dresses. Indications are that he was
bound for Sweden. He was held on
the charge of failing to register as an
alien and refusing to answer questions
by the police.
Miss Pankhurst's letter to Lenine
however, has proved enlightenins 10
persons here who have been wondering
about the possibilities Of Bolshevism in
England. a topic which Is to the fore
now because of the strike by the coal
miners. the Whitehall riot last week.
the return Of II. G. Wells to London
from Russia and an amusing open let
ter TO Mr.. Wells by Henry Arthur
Jones, the playwright, who satirically
asks what Mr.. Wells means when he
says he found hunger, but order" in
Russia. Mr.. Jones wrote about two
columns. asking and answering ques-
tons about that order"
Miss Pankhurst. in her letter. among
other trite things, said:
II considered hunger strike, but am
afraid that weapon Is now destroyed,
since the Government is letting the
Irish hunger strikers die
Ear tattar makes n aDparent that she
Is financially embarrassed, as she tried
to touch" Lenine for more funds, be-
cause, she says, II am loaded with
debts of honor. some of which are on
the point of disgracing me-" Also she
thinks "the Fates very unjust, since the
struggle Is so hard for some. while
others only draw from the movement,
giving little In return" However. Miss
Pankhurst observes that things still
advance"-but she wrote that before
she tried to advance her letter to Le-
nine toward Russia.
Miss Pankhurst went to Russia as a
stowaway a few months ago. She be-
came very I'll during the trip and suf-
fered much. but finally came out of
Russia full OF fervor and gathered to-
gether her followers. her activity at
tracing much curious attention here.
1t now looks as II the silent foreigner
who was brought before the Bow Street
Police Court was acting as dlplo-
matte runner between Moscow and
London, as he also carried a letter from
Miss Pankhurst to G. S. zinovieff.
Bolshevlst military governor of Petro-
grad, and code letter by her.
Sees Revolution Coming.
Here are excerpts from her letter to
Lenine:
ITO NikolaI Lenine from Sylvia Pank-
hurst.
Dear Comrade:
1.-THE situation here Is moving in a
revolutionary direction more swiftly
but. of course, we are far away yet.
The price of necessaries is rising. al
though the cost of living Is not sup
posed to have risen this month. I'm
employment Is now acute and tho I'M
employed FESTIVE. One OF Lansbury's
meetings was broken up by members OF
my party because he advised peaceful
methods.
THE unemployed in various towns
march TO the factories and enter them
and speak OF selling them. The ex-
soldiers arm end drill. But do not ex-
aggerate these things. They are not
formidable yet"
Again. speaking Of tho whitehall riot.
she says:
Tho Communist party, alas "a
neither big enough nor bold enough to
riso 10 the occasion. In tho Dread
nduGht I tried to set a holder policy
and should be discussing Il this after
noon with my executive committee, but
was arrested last Thursday. / am now
under $4,000 bail not 20 meet or COM
municate with any of our people re-
sponsibie for publishing the paper until
my trial Thursday, 80 I can only coma
municate indirectly"
Further on IN her letter she says:
"The parllamentarism and tameuess
OF the British Socialis. party are sore
points with our party. and we have had
hard struggle trying TO bring them
around. I have had a most terrible
struggle since returned home"
Then she recounts tho difficulties she
has had In publishing the Dreddnduoht
and In connection with her debts.
THE Third Internatlonsle in Moscow
heard my Plea when / was there and
promised relief. but Il has not come"
She says. This week our South Wales
mining comrades sent for 500 extra
copies OF the DrcddnapOht. and bor-
rowcd paper from the Herald (the rad-
cal labor organ In Tsondon), but AZ pres
ent ] have not enough paper for next
weeks Issue"