The Washington herald., 1920-10-27
ENGLISH REVOLT
LEADERS FOUND.
IN HIGH PLACES.
Red Uprising Plot Traced
To Parliament Member
And War Hero.
MYSTERY" MAN HELD
Large Sums Expended to
Bnbe Sailors on Warships
Now Unearthed.
BY CARL w. ACKERMAN.
wnhingtan Hsrald-PubHo Ledger Service.
Special c.hls Dispatch-)

By CARL w. AChERMAN.
Cv,shinstaa Hsrhd.PusHo Ledger Service.
Special oahis nisp.teh-)
London. Oct 26.-It was stated
tonight on the authority of the
British cabinet that the government
believes 1t has at last checkmated
the reyolutionists-
The war, navy and home offices
combined today in examining and
DECIDING secret correspondence
captured in the arrest of the
Mystery Man." charged in Bow
Street Court today and remanded
for a hearing next week
The government knows not only
the identity but the whole story
OF the recent activities of the
Mystery Man" who has been act
ing as confidential courier between
the Moscow Third Internationale
and the leaders of the British revo-
lutionary party.
Real Leader Found.
The government believes it has
learned the real leader of the
British revolutionary party. To the
surprise Of the government he is
a member of parliament who has
taken advantage Of his official
position and immunity from arrest
TO guide and direct a movement
to overthrow the government by
communist agitation. 1t was stated
on high authority tonight that a
lieutenant colonel who distinguish
ed himself during the war by his
services in France. had been har-
boring Russian couriers during
home has been used as the Bolshe-
visit headquarters here.
In the documents seized the gov
ernment discovered who the men
were who had been spending large
sums of money bribing sailors of
the navy. One expenditure of 800
pounds on one British warshIp has
already been established. Further
payments in the army have also
been traced
One of the most interesting docu-
ments was a letter from Sylvia
Pankhurst to Lenine, in which she
wrote:
The situation here is moving in
a revolutionary direction more
swiftly, but of course we are far
away yet. The prices of neces-
saries' are rising though the ocst
Of living is not, on the whole, sup
posed to have risen this month.
Unemployment is now acute and the
unemployed are restive.
The Communist party, alas, is
neither big enough nor bold enough
to rise to the occasion. The Com
munist Tom Bell was advocating
the other week a strike for a re-
duction Of hours to absorb the un-
employed into the industries.
Changes Policy.
Il tried to set a boIder policy and
should be discussing it with my ex-
Fcutive this afternoon but 1 was
arrested last Thursday and am un-
der 1000 pounds bail not to meet or
communicate with any of our people
responsible for publishing the paper
until my trial Thursday so 1 can
only communicate indirectly. 1 ex-
pect six months imprisonment 1
consider a hunger strike but 1 am
afraid that the weapon is destroyed
now since the government is letting
the Irish hunger strikers die.
Scottish Communist Labor Party
disinclined to unity. 1 was first to
let the movement know through the
'Dreadnaught' that the Third In
ternationale had called US to a new
unity conference.
TParliamentarianism and the
tameness Of the British Socialist
Party crowd are sore points with
our party and 1 shall have a hard
struggle to bring them round now
that 1 shall not be there"
Copyright, 1920, By Public Ledger CO..