Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-09-24
+ RENCHNAN SAYS
PLOT WORLD WIDE
Industrial Diplomat Talks of Wall
Street Explosion.
WARNS OF GREAT DANGER
Civilization in Balance as Propaganda
os so-called Socialists Progresses
Declares 1t Is Not the Work
of q Single Mind

ana banking diplomat, VINO mas passed
a week III Chicago believes wide
spread piot is behind the bomb expio-
sion in Wall street.
The anarchist he said, possesses
Il 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 death
instrument
"But this attempt TO destroy the
focal point of Wall street is not the
work of a man working alone, man
whose intiinates knew nothing Of what
was about to take place.
Many Letters of Warning.
"AIy first reason for This conclusion
IS the number of letters sent TO mem
bers Of my own French mission in
New York and TO others, warning them
of catastrophe on the afternoon of
the explosion Others knew of il aud
made no effort to stop it. II was not
the work of single man.
Secondly, from the IT. irrational
viewpoint, what may | think when
this is followed by a similar bomb ex-
plosion in Genoa? What am ! TO he
lieve when Italy is in the throes of a
serious economic condition. Are
these coincidental?
"And what about the letter from
your Wisconsin city of Milwaukee,
warning certain ex-officers and men in
Washington that TREY are marked for
death?
Denounces Socialist Paper.
Il cannot believe that this IS all the
worF of one lone giraffe anarchist.
Ncf can believe that these events in
different countries are coincidents.
just what il prophesies am not will
ing to state, even If / should have an
opinion"
Baror Gfancy commented upon the
"scuydlous" article which appeared in
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 Gar"
This is of course all untrue" he
said. II 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.
"0ftentlmes the very germ uf 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 u
warning and who is now IN custody
was, perhaps, a former doorman or
employee at 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 o. Prentiss, chaIrmaA 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 al
once, every bank interested in foreign
credits viii be blown to pieces. | do
my work right We will make the
job a new way"
Baron Grancy remarked that the
question OF adjusting foreign credits
and exchange was one of the very
matters which has brought him 10
this country and that IL was some
thing that could not be done at once
as the letter insisted
Take my own country. for exam.
Pile" 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
lost But n-time we shall be 20 per
cent more efficient than ever we we've
before the war;
France VIII Come Back"
"That will bring francs back IA
normal and they will not come back
any sooner, no matter how MANY
banks are blown up"
One Of the haron's dreams is tc
mske Brest the greatest intereontinen
tai port in the world
IL have seen the Leviathan detaipe,
In Liverpool as many as "A days he
cause Of lack Of tidewater. hay,
seen the same boat make its way out
of Brest In As to SO hours.
"Brest has the opportunities 70,
greatness unexcelled. And Chicago
has similar future. for / am inter.
esteti in the ST. Lawrence and Misses.
Sippi river water routes from Chicago
TO the sea. II viii he big thing for
Chicarn inst rs for Rrest