Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-09-28
FRENCHMAN SAYS
PLOT WORLDWIDE
Industrial Diplomat Talks of Wall
Street Explosion.
WARNS OF GREAT DANGER
Civilization in Balance as Propaganda
Of So-CalIed Socialists Progresses
Declares 1t Is Not the Work
of a Single Mind.

Chicago, Sept, 21.-Baron Antonin
de Mandat Grancy, French industrial
and banking diplomat, who has passed
week in Chicago, believes a wide
spread plot is behind the bomb eXplo-
sion in Wall street.
"The anarchist" he said, possesses
a unique turn of mind. He usually
has worked alone. Even in Paris, the
friends of an arrested bOmb-thrower
often did not know that the guilty
man was engaged in making a death
instrument.
But this attempt TO destroy the
focal point of Wall street is not the
work of a man working alone, man
whose intimates knew nothing of what
was about to take place.
Many Letters OF Warning.
MY first reason for this conclusion
is the number of letters sent to men,
bers Of NY own French mission in
New York and to others, warning them
of a catastrophe on the afternoon of
the explosion. Others knew of it and
made no effort to stop it. 1t was not
the work of single man.
Secondly, from the International
viewpoint, what may think when
this is followed by similar bomb ex-
plOsion in Genoa? What am l TO be-
lieve when Italy is in the thrOes of
serious economic condition? Are
These cOincidpntal?
and what about the letter from
your Wisconsin city of Milwaukee,
warning certain ex-officers and men in
Washington that they are marked for
death?
Denounces Socialist Paper.
81 cannot believe that this is all the
work of one lone erratic anarchist.
Nor can / believe that these events in
different countries are cOincidents.
Just what it prophesies l am not will
ing to state, even if l should have an
opinion"
Baron Grancy commented upon the
"scurrious" article which appeared in
a Chicago Socialist paper. which told
of Frances plan to dismember Ger
many" and which asserted that
French agents are everywhere in the
country fomenting separatist move
ments, making ready for the keen
knife of war"
This is of course all untrue" he
said. 81 blame such articles for many
of the disastrous events which from
time to time occur to disturb the peace
both here and in other countries.
'OftentimeS the very germ of an
idea is placed in an otherwise free
mind by such an article and some
times the result is like what we saw
In New York last Wednesday,"
The baron says that the letters
which were sent to attaches of the
French mission in New York arrived
after he left the city and he believes
that the man who sent them as a
warning and who is now in custody
was, perhaps, d former dOOrman or
employee 1T the mission building. He
attaches no Importance TO their being
delivered at the French mission.
Shown New Threat in Note.
He read a letter which had been
sent to Mark 0. PrentiSS, chairman of
the United States clearing house for
foreign credits, which Mr. Prentiss
said was delivered to him several
weeks ago and which read:
UNLESS you put sterling, francs,
marks down where they belong at
once, every bank interested in foreign
credits will be blown to pieces. l do
my work right. We will make the
job new way"
Baron Grancy remarked that the
question of adjusting foreign credits
and exchange was one of the very
matters which has brought him to
this country and that 1t was some
thing that could not be done at once
as the letter insisted.
"Take my own country, for exam
pie" he said. Our exchange is low
because we are not exporting now as
we should, and. indeed, as we shall
later when we have recuperated. We
are using everything we now make for
ourselves TO rebuild where we have
tOSt. Iul III tllilt We Silu{I Ue ~ Der
cent more efficient than ever we were
before the war"
France Will Come Back"
THAT will bring francs back to
normal and they will not come back
any sooner, no matter how many
banks are blown up
One of the baron's dreams is to
make Brest the greatest intercontinen-
tai port in the world.
II have seen the Leviathan detained
in Liverpool as many as "a days be-
cause of lack of tidewater. l have
seen the same boat make its way out
of Brest In 4S to 53 hours.
"Brest has the opportunities for
greatness uneXcelled. And Chicago
has a similar future. for l am inter
csted in the ST. Lawrence and Mfssis-
sippi river water routes from Chicago