The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-11-25
RUSSIAN SOVIET
FOE TO AMERICA
Sending Agitators to u. S.
to Stir Trouble Among
the Workmen.
RUSS FORGE PASSPORTS

The Hague. American diplomatic
officials abroad who are in possession
of evidence Of propaganda schemes or
iginating in Moscow are opposed to
any attempt to abandon the United
States passport and visa systems now
in operation. This is because they are
convinced that the Russian soviet gov
eminent has been attempting to send
hundreds of dangerous agitators to the
United States.
Wartime passport regulations have
been considerably modified, both for
Americans and foreigners seeking
American visas, in the past few months
and every attempt will be made, it was
said, to make travel as easy as posi-
Bile abroad next summer. But, in face
OF the evidence which has accumulated
during the past few months, believe to
indicate a determined effort by the
bolshevik government to spread its
jurisdiction to America, the diplomatic
officials do not wish to surrender their
most potent safeguard against it
passport control.
$50 far as the would-be emigrant is
concerned" one American official said,
things have just been so simplifed
for him that, in ten minutes time, pro-
viding his own government considers
him a worthy subject and has SO evil
denced this by giving him a passport,
he can answer all the questions we
want to know about him. If 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 neces-
sity of securing visas from various
other consulates, if he wishes to visit
several countries and objects to
frontier inspections, he must renrem-
Der that perhaps the man who sat next
to him in the railway car was a boil
shevik or an anarchist, enroute some
place with bomb, who might be
stopped at the frontier before he could
throw the bomb.
Americans coming abroad will save
themselves much difficulty if, 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 enter all the coun-
tries they wish to visit"
While most of the bolshevik agents
enroute to America seek to get through
on false seamen's certificates or by
other surreptitious means, according
to American officials here, there are
number of nervy ones who appear at
American passport bureaus, from time
to time, and request legitimate visas.
During recent week at an American
passport bureau in Holland, out of 25
persons refused visas, four were known
to be revolutionary agitators and three
were international criminals.
The United States surgeon generals
office has recently established at some
of the big embarkation 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 United States.
"The whole effort" one official said,
"is, by passport control and medical
inspection, to control the situation on
this side, thus relieving Ellis Island
and the other immigrant stations at
home of much work"