The New York herald., 1920-12-03
M'CULLAGH HEARS
OF NEW RED PLOTS
AGAINST AMERICA
Two Men Just Out of Russia
Tell Secrets of Third
InternatiOnale.
N. Y. EDITOR NAMED
Duty of BroOklynite Is to
In0culate Negroes With
Bolsheyik MicrObe.
SOvIETS LIVE, DIE LAZY
Hold No British Prisoners Now
and Few From L. S. Are
Locked Up.
SOvIETS LIVE, DIE LAZY
n, CAPT. FRANCIS M'cULLAGH.

Special cable 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD
Copyright, 1920. BY TIE New YonK HERALD.
SoMEw HERE IN LATvIA. Nov. =, via
LONDON. Dec. 2.-I have been talking
to-day with two men who have just
come out Of Russia. One of them Is
an American, who represented the
United States ut the second congress
OF the Third Internationale 1T Moscow.
hut he is very naturally averse to my
giving his name and | therefore with
hold IT, He tells me there are now
no British imprisoned In Russia, but
that four Americans are under lock
and key i'm Moscow-Mrs. Harrison Of
the Associated Press. who was ar
rested October u. and was still con-
fined when he left in the prison OF
Vecheka. where only The most serious
political suspects are detained Kelley.
an engineer Schwartz of Oakland.
Cal. and the wife of resident OF
Milwaukee named Ruben.
Mrs. Marguerite Harrison of Balti-
more, SiSter-ln-idW OF GOV ftllcnie OF
Maryland went TO Russia about year
ago as correspondent for the Baltimore
Sam and the Associated Press She is
the daughter OF the late Bernard n.
Baker OF Baltimore. No word has been
received from her since July.l
The Reds are very 'jumpy." Early
in June munirion factory near Mos
COW was blown mp through the care
lessness Of the mechanics themselves,
but suspectng Polish treachery the
Bolsheviki arrested hundreds of Poles.
who have since been relea sed. On Oc-
tober 20 they had another scare. dur
ing which they arrested thousands In
Moscow on suspicion Of being involved
in a counter revolutionary plot.
Some coal is coming from the
Donetz Basin where several mines
are now in working order. A little oil
Is coming from Astrakhan and good
deal OF wood has been piled up i'm
Moscow for winter.
Railway Repairs Are slow.
An ambitious attempt To electrify
Moscow and Petrogrod railways has
been unsuccessful. and the repairing
Of railroad engines is not quite catch
ing up with the breakdowns. This is
because the best mechanics are at the
front, because Of the lack of materials
and because there Is not enough food
for the workmen.
Imports from Sweden began re-
Gently, but too late TO make much diff
ference. These come through Muir.
mansl1 and Archangel.
TX" (as / shall refer to my Amer-
can informant) met both Lenine and
1'rotzky and was surprised at the for
mer's invincible ignorance of English
and American conditions. In this in
stance he said he was shown teIe-
gram to the workers of England which
The British labor delegation refused to
sign because II would only have an.
tagonized British labor. az told the
Reds they must let foreign Socialists
write their own kilograms, that II was
madness for f.enlne to insist upon
composing such things. I.enine was
absolutely obsessed with the idea that
the world revolution is now only Il
question of weeks. and on this point
he is quite impervious to argument.
An Irish American Communist was
asked to write the history OF the
aorerian movement in Ireland but
said. "You don't know what YOU are
aslcing for II Russian peasants
learned how Irish peasants united TO
overthrow lendlordism they would also
unite to overthrow you"
Banauets In Cars Ola HAN.
Some OF the banauets held at the
l(remln under the auspices OF the
extraordinary functions ~" ever at
tended They took place in the old
Danqueting hall OF the Cars. and
r.enine presided. while around the
table sat the leading commissars OF
t1sed Russia. Bolshevik guests from all
parts Of the globe. Mexico was repre-
sented by Mahendra Nath Roy, an
East Indian. who intends. he said. TO
return to Mexico we'll provided with
funds to stir up agitation among the
negroes in the United states.
other distinguished guests were Won
Sohlomberg OF Brooklyn, who has
been charged bv the Third Interna-
ticnaie with the task of innoculating
American negroes with the Bolshevik
microbe, and Louis c. F'rcina. editor OF
Nory Mir OF New York. Freina in
tends to do his bit' by uniting the
proletariat OF North and South Amer
"a Cont.nsed o. ssoond Po0s.