Arizona republican., 1920-02-02
UNEARTH SECRET. TRAVEL CHANNEL .OF RED COUR|ERS
Use Forged American Red Cross Credentials in Ply ing Between Berlin and Soviet Russia Carried Messages of Sensational Red Plans
TRepublican A.P. Leased Wire]

LONDON. Feb. 1. - BolSheV1St agents, entrusted with messages re- garding sensational widespread req plans, have been. for conslderaple time, travelling between Berhn anu soviet Russia on false credentials, IL isg Jtated iA official quarters. The credentials they carried are said to have described them as delegates or the American Red Cross mission Tn Berlin to conduct investigations re- Sarding the exchange of German DTS oners from Russia.
 These courierS it appears, were carrying dispatches between Moscow and bolshevist organizations in other countries, including the German Spar tacists and the Swiss communists. Lithuanian authorities discovered the illicit aveling after Lithuanian's bor- ders had been crossed many times, and a number of arrests followed. Not all the courierS were provided with American papers, but such forged credentials were found on several or the prisoners.
 Admit FaIsity of Credentials
 Two men who carried Red Cross passes admitted they had nothing to do with the American mission, but m reality were working for the commu- = nists. One woman, similarly equipped. who worked from Dvinsk. said she had been instructed to deliver docu-
  personally.
 Most interesting of the captures were two men en route to Moscow, by way of Berlin. They carried let ters concealed in their neckties. One of them was a German and d member of the independent socialist party of Germany, and the other was Il Swiss belonging to an extremists organIza- tion called the Socialist t-Democratic organization of Young People in Switzerland.
 The German carried letter from the head of a Spartacist organization in Germany to NJ. Tchitcherin, Rus sian bolSheyik minister of foreign af f- fairs. The letter indignantly de- nounced the report that German Spar tacists were counter revolutionary to the Russian bolshevists. It is de- cIared that Karl Radek (the bolshe- vik propagandist who recently left Berlin} could testify to the writer s communist sympathies. It was said further by the writer that he was arranging with the Russian bolshe- vist Zineoff, with regard to spreading communist propa ganda in all parts of the world by special courier service from Berlin.
 Planned Wholesale Foreeries
 Another letter seized, which was written by the same German. stated he had succeeded in inducing a staff of G0eIdN0TS lo print -AlAiSi iSci4 OAiNi and German passports for the. use ot couriers and suggested that the SO viets make similar arrangements TOT courierS from Russia to Germany.
 The Swiss courier carried a letter from the secretary of an organization of extreme socialists in Berne to ar editor of d >ed paper in Moscow, ac- bnowledging the receipt of bolshevlE literature from Moscow, of which ht said he had made great use, and ask ing further supplies.
 Under interrogation the German courier declared the German indepen- dent socialists would attack and over come the German government the mo ment they were assured of suppor from Lenine.