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? | } ASS l|''' ! S'POR J / Law ] I.
Is NECESSARY.
SAY 7 OFFICIALS |.
Attempt to Send Agitators
to America Makes Such
Laws Important.

The Hague, Nov. 1o.--(Mail. y
American diplomatic officials abroad
who are in possession Of evidence OF
propaganda schemes, originating in
to abandon the United States 's. nass:
port and visa systems now. in oper-
alton. This is because they are con-
vtnced that the Russian soviet gov
'ernment has been attempting to send
hundreds of dangerous agitators to
the United States. & ne ~.
Wartime passport regulations have
been considerably modified, both for
Americans and foreigners seeking
American yisas, in the past few
months and every attempt will be
made, it was said, to make travel as
easy as possible abroad next summer.
But. in face of the evidence which
has accomplished during the past few
months, Believed to indicate de-
termined effort by the Bolshevik gov
ernment to spread its jurisdiction to
America, the diplomatic officials do
not wish>3sto surrender, their most
potent safeguard against it-passport
control. I'M -
$50 far as the would-be emigrant is
concerned" one American official
said, things have Just been so simpli-
fled for him that in ten minutes time,
providing his own government con-
siders him a worthy subject and has
so evidenced this by giving him q
passport, he can answer all the ques-
tions we want to know about him. II
he is satisfactory, he can get his visa
the same day and be on his way to the
United States speedily.
The American travelling abroad
will get all the assistance possible to
give him. If he frets because of the
necessity of securing visas from vari-
GUS other consulates, If he wishes to
visit several countries and objects to
frontier inspections, he must remem-
Der that perhaps the man who sat
next to him in the railway car was a
Bolsheyik or an anarchist, en- route
some place with a bomb. who might
be stopped at the frontier before he
could throw the bomb. .. 90 Al
Americans coming abroad will
save themselves much difficulty IL
just as they go to the bank before
leaving to get letter Of credit, they
will secure at foreign ,consulates in
America visas permitting them to. en-
ter all the countries they wish to
visit:", 5sg,l...
While most of the Bolshevik agents
en- route to America seek to gel
through bn false, seamen's certificates
or by other surreptitious means, ac-
cording to- American officials here
there are number Of nervy ones who
appear at American passport bureaus
from time to time. and request legiti.
mate yisas. ~ ,l5.a -
During u recent week at an Ameri.
can spassport bureau in Holland, out
of s3}s persons srefnsed visas four were
kil5sWn to s;s oiutionaty agftators
and three were international Grim.
inals. Il; "a ts So "a s. f,t. q! ts$Ssi4
The United States surgeon general's
Office has recently. established at some
Of the big embarlation ports in
Europe bureaus Of sanitary inspection
and quarantine, which, cooperating
with the local medical. authorities
seek to prevent diseased emigrants
from going to the UHitsd States 81
The whole effort, lone official said
lis, by passport control and medical
inspection, to control the situation or
this side, thus relieving Ellis Island
and the other immigrant stations al
home Of much work. .s.4