The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-07


Capt McCullagh served THE NEW
YORK HERALD brilliantly as its cor
respondent during the Russo Japanese
war.
BY CAPTAIN FRANCIS McCULLAGH.
Special Correspondence to THE New YORK
HERALD.
Copyright 1920 by THE New York HERALD.
LONDON, Oct. Is.
~ sneaking into the Commissariat Of
Foreign Affairs in Moscow one day.
in order to get the address Of for
eign journalist, then in Moscow. l ran into
a commissar who was specially charged
with English journalistic affairs, who knew
of my capture as Krasnoyarsk, and who had
been anxiously awaiting my arrival in Mos
COW. had a bad quarter of an hour ex-
planning why had not reported earlier. but
/ finally succeeded in shifting all the blame
for the delay onto the shoulders of the
commissar in whose train had travelled
and without whose permission could not.
pleaded, call on Comrade Tchitcherin.
This press commissar insisted my NOV
ing at once from my railway carriage to
one of the guest houses in which the Soviet
Government accommodates it's foreign
guests. 1t had formerly been the residence
of a German factory owner, and was sit
uated near the Red Gate. I moved into 1t
next day. Some weeks later was trans
ferred to the Savoy Hotel, similar estab-
lishment.'
The Red Underworld and Its Work for
World Chaos.
This change in my fortunes introduced me
to a new world the underworld of the Third
Internatonale an institution which aims
frankly at the overthrow of every Govern
ment in Europe, Asia and America. Among
the guests were a Corean committee which
is working hard for the independence OF
Corea, though 1t only contemplates the es-
tablishment Of constitutional monarchy
there not of a Soviet. The head of the
Corean committee is an intelligent and very
pleasant young Corean called Pak-Y who
was educated at Moscow University and
speaks Russian well.
Under him are several other Coreans as
we'll as a Japanese correspondent of the
Osaka Asdhi. who had been captured, like
myself. in Siberia, imprisoned in Moscow and
only released on promising to work against
his own country He is now translating
with Oriental placidity all sorts Of propa-
ganda matter for dissemination among the
Japanese troops, and this propaganda Is
credited with having brought the desertion
to the Bolshevista of about one hundred Jap
anese soldiers in Trans Baikala last spring.
A Communist newspaper is printed In Jap
anese by the Third Internationale and Is
periodically despatched to the Far East.
Another japanese journalist, Mr.. Husie,
representing the Osaka Mdinichd. came from
Reval with safe conduct signed by Tchit-
cherin. but the extraordinary commission,
which insisted that he was a spy and had
been living in 1915 with the Japanese Mill
tary Attache at Petrograd, made great eff
fort to arrest him, but had not succeeded in
doing so up to the time left Moscow owing
to Tchitcherin's opposition. The correspond
ent in question was kept under domiciary
arrest, however, and, for all the news he got,
might as we'll have remained in Esthonia.
Capt. Sadul, formerly of the French Mil
tary Mission and now a Red commissar
was down In the south with the army dur
ing my stay In Moscow. but his brother also
a Bolshevik, had arrived from France. Pro-
fessor Barrakatula had come from India
and was assisted by number of Indians,
who spoke Russian, in planning a revolt
against British rule in Hndustan.
He worked In combination with Az
CHAN deputation, dressed in the military
uniforms supplied to the Enir by the In
dian Government, and, with a number OF
other Mohammedans from Persia, the eau
casus. Central Asia and Turkey. A Pan-Mo-
hammedan Congress was held at the Foreign
office with the object of driving the English
from India and Persia and. OF creating
trouble in Turkey. and one of the fruits Of
It's deliberations was the attack on Persia
which took place some time later.
The Bosheviks are convinced that the
British raj in India is undermined and will
soon go down with a crash. They are equally
convinced that chaos will soon prevail In
Persia, Mesopotamia and Asiatic Turkey,
not so much because the indictments in
those countries are strong as because lin
their opinion) the English troops are tired
of war and the English people will be un-