The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-10-21
COMMUNIST PLOT
Is REVEALED AT
FRENCH CAPITAL
Planned RetaIiatory Measures
Against American Officials
Throughout France.
I'm EVENT OF EXECUTION
OF SACCOI AND .YANZETTI
Two Men Recently Convicted of
Murder in Boston May Be
Given New Trial
tBy The Associates prsss.i !

PARIS, Oct. 2O.-A plot by French
communists to take retaliatory meas
ures against all American officials in
France in the event of the execution OF
Saceo and Yanzettf. the two men con-
victed in a United States court for
murder, was revealed tonight when it
; became known that threats had been
made to blow up the offices of the
American reparations commissioners
and the passport bureau.
Threatening letters, warning Of re-
prisaIs in the event OF the death of the
two men. also were received today by
the American consul general, Alexan-
der NJ. Thacl5ara, and the American
consuis at MarseilIes Bordeaux and
Lyons. IN consequences Of this. strong
forces Of police are guarding the new
building near the Place do L'Et1ole.
occupied by the reparat1ons and pass
port offices, and also the consulate in
the Hue Des Italiens. The police IN
Bordeaux, Lyons and Marseilles are
guarding the consnlates there
The letters to the passport and repa-
rations officials were not signed, but
a letter received by Mr.. ThacAera this
ORGANIZATION in a small town near
Lille. II said that retaliatory measures
would ID taken against American citi-
cuted
No arrests Were announced up TO 4
late hour tonight by the French police
In connection. with the explosion Of a
bomb in Ambassador HerrtclI's home
doned the theory of a plot and believe
that the sending OF the bomb was the
act Of an individual communist.
The police have discovered the dis
trict postoffice where the package was
mailed, but have been unable to find
any trace OF the sender. In the mean
time Ambassador Herricx received 46
more letters cf protest during the day.
the afternoon of another letter, threat
ening the lives Of American officials
IN France.
! The Americans do not accept the
theory Of the police: they believe that
a widespread plot actually exists to do
serious harm to Americans. The latest
letter to the ambassa dor is signed by
the communist socialist and young
communist OIEtAuAHdAiOAS Va S~idhOAi9-
Sur Marine and is stamped with the
official seal of these bodies.
Tomorrow (Friday) IS the day gem
orally set for carrying out the threats
and demonstrations, and the French
police are taking every precautfon to
prevent gatherings OF any kind near
the building occupied by Americans.
Consul General Thacaara has re-
ceived 10 letters. but all couched in
mild language, except one. OF those
sent to the ambassador today only one
is OF an infiammatory character; many
are politely phrased and merely pro-
test against the executions
The Journal du Peuple, the commu-
mist organ, speaking for the commu-
nists of Paris, dismisses the attempt
on Ambassador Herricks life as pure
" and simply a police macaination. It
finds too many ''inexplicaiDle coinci-
dents in the affair, such as "the ex
treme astuteness Of the valet. unless
he had been forewarned
'.The American government has the
habit of doing these things" says the
paper. such attempts often have in
the last 20 years been fabricated be-
vond the Atlantic to give pretext for
the repression Of militant anarchists
and revolutionaries.