Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-24
RED AG|TAT0RS
SEEK PASSPORTS
To ENTER j. s.
American Diplomatic 0ffiC-
iaIs Abroad Must Be on
the Alert at All Times to
Halt Dangerous Element.
IRv The Associated Pressl

The Hague, NOV. 23.-Amerlcah
diplomatic officials abroad who are
in possession OF evidence of prop
uganda schemes originating III
Moscow are opposed to any attempt
to abandon the United States pass
port and visa systems now in oper-
alton. This is because they are
convinced that the Russian SOVIET
government has been attempting to
send hundreds of dangerous aglta-
tors 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 VIII
he made. it was said, to make traN-
ell as easy as possible abroad next
summer. But, in face of the evil
dence which has accumulated dur
ing the past few months, belleVed
to indicate a determined effort by
the bolshevik government to spread
its jurisdiction to America, the
diplomatic officials do not wish 10
surrender their most potent safe
guard against it--passport control
PASSPORT Easy to Obtain.
$50 far as the would-be emit
grant is concerned one American
official said, 'things have just been
so simplified for him that. in ten
minutes time, providing his own
government considers him worthy
subject and has so evidenced tins
by giving him a passport, he can
answer all the questions we want
to know about him. II he IS salts
factory, 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 Ga
the necessity of securing visas from
various other consulates-t ne
wishes to visit several countries
and objects to frontier inspections
he must remember that perhaps
the man who sat next to him in
the railway car was a bolsheVlk
or an anarchist, en- route some
place with a bomb, who might be
stopped at the frontier before ne
could throw the bomb. -,
Americans coming abroad VIII
save themselves much difficulty II,
lust as they go to the bank before
leaving to get letter of credit,
thew will secure at foreign consu-
lates in America Visas permitting
them to enter all the countries they
wish to visit.
Many Arc Ncryy.
While most of the bolsheVlh
agents en- route to America seek
to get through on false seamen,
certificates or by other surreptiti-
Gus means, according to American
officials here, there are number
of nervy ones who appear at Am
: erican passport bureaus, from time
to time, and request legitimate
visas. Of ''' .t1'-
During a recent week at an Am
erioan passport bureau in HoIiand
out of rs persons refused visas foui
were known to be Revolutionary
agitators, and three were interna-
tional criminals.
The United States surgeon gen
erals office has recently estao-
lished at some of the big embarka-
ton ports in Europe bureaus oil
sanitary inspection and quarantine
which, cooperating with the loca
medical authorities, seek to pre-
vent diseased emigrants from gong
to the United States.
'"The whole effort" one officia
said, "is by passport control ano
medical inspection, to control the
situation on this side, thus reli3v'
ing Ellis Island and the other inn
migrant stations at home of mucf
work"