Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-21
OFFICES Of ALL
j. s. OFFICIALS
IN F RANCE WERE
TO Be BLOWN UP
Plot of French Communists
to Take RetaIiatory Meas
ures Is Revealed Letters
Warn of RepriSaIS,
POLICE HAVE A CLEW
IN HERRICk BLAST
Radicals Demand the Re-
lease of Two Men Con-
viCted in Massachusetts
on a Charge of Murder
CBy The Associated Press.)

IarlS, OCt. " 10y tHe ASSOCldleu
Press. "A plot by French COM
munists to take retaliatory meas
ures against all American officials
, in France in the event of the exc
cution of Sacco and Vansetti, con-
victed in the United States of mur-
der, was revealed tonight when 1t
became known that threats had
been made to blow up the offices Of
the American reparations conmis-
sion and the passport bureau.
Threatening letters warning Of
reprlsals in the event of the death
of the two men, were also received
today by the American consul gen.
eral, A. NJ. Thackara, and the
American consuls at MarseiIles,
| Bordeaux and Lyons. AS a result
strong forces of police are guard
ing the new building near the
Place de LEtoile, occupied by the
Preparations and passport offices.
and also the consulate in the Rue
deauX, Lyons and Marseilles are
guar IulHS COlSuldltS lutIC.
Letters Not Signed.
Letters to the passport and re-
parations officials were not signed,
but a letter received by Mr.. Thao-
kara tonight was signed by the
communist organization in a small
town near Lille. 1t said retalia-
tory measures would be taken
against American citizens in France
If the men were executed.
No arrests had been announced
tonight by the French police in
connection with the explosion of a
bomb in Ambassador Herricks s
home, and police say they have
abandoned the theory of a plot and
believe that the sending OF the
bomb was the act of an individual
communist.
Police have discovered the post
office where the package was
mailed. 1t is located in the work.
mans quarter.
Ambassador Herrick received
forty-six more letters of protest to-
day, including ono threatening
lives of American officials in
France.
tbCifcNCS II blOb fJNistS.
The Americans do not accept the
theory of the police: they believe a
widespread plot exists to do serious
harm to Americans. The latest let
ter to the ambassador is signed by
the communist t-socialist and young
communist organizations of Cha
Ions -Sur-Marne and is stamped
with the official seal of these
bodies.
Tomorrow is the day generally
set for carrying out the threats ana
demonstrations and the French
police are taking precautions to
prevent gatherings near buildings
occupied by Americans.
Consul General Thackara has
received ten letters, but all couch
ed In mild language, except one.
"a Police Vaccination"
-he journal du Peuple. COM
munist organ, speaking for the
communists of Paris. dismissed the
attempt on Ambassador Herricks
life as "purely and simply police
machination." 1t finds too many
fnexplicable coincidents" in the
affair, such as "the extreme astute-
ness Of the valet, unless he had
been forewarned.
1.-THE American government has
the habit of doing these things II
continues "Such attempts have
often in the last twenty years been
fabricated beyond the Atlantic, 20
give pretext for the repression OF
militant anarchists and revolution
aries"