Evening star., 1921-10-21
FIND COMMUNISTS
SLIPPED INTO j. s.
T0CAUSE TROUBLE
Herrick Gets More Letters
Threatening Retaliation.
Police Scout Plot Theory.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associa ted Press
PARIS, October 21.-A French po-
lice official asserted today that more
than 100 members of the Young Com
munist organization in Europe had
slipped through the immigration lines
and reached the United States within
the last two months for the purpose
of causing trouble" if the two Ital-
ians. Sacco and Vanzetti. we're exc.
cuted for the murder of witch they
were convicted in Massachusetts last
summer.
Many of these men. the official said.
ican passport bureau in Paris and
had been refused after inquiry into
their cases. but later were able to
get t0 America by other means. The
police are now working on the the
ory that some of these communists
who failed to get through the lines
after having been refused passports
were responsible for the bomb sent to
Ambassador Herrick which blew up
in his home Wednesday.
This theory is the result of threat
made by a young communist, who
said he was an Italian. at the Amer
lean passport offices here Monday
not give him a wise for America un-
less he conformed with the regula-
tions. The applicant. who gave his
age as twenty-five years. became an
cry when refused. exclaiming:
Somebody will get killed for this"
The officials induced him to give his
address. but both this and his name
could not be verified. and it is as
sumed they were false. A guard was
Immediately placed at the entrance
to the office.
This man. the police think, may be
one of the group responsible for the
bomb sent to the ambassador and the
threats made against American
officials in France.
Sixty-Eisht Letters OF Protest.
Ambassador Herrick, when he re-
turned to his Office this morning,
found sixty-eight additional letters of
protest in connection with the Mas
sachusetts case, two of them con-
Americans if the executions took
place. The guard at the embassy
was increased today, and every pos
sible precaution has been taken to
protect the passport bureau. the repa-
rations commission offices and the
American consulate.
The communist mass meeting of
protest against the conviction of the
two Italians, called for tonight in one
of the largest halls of Paris, is caus-
ing some apprehension, and the re-
publican guard has been called out to
keep order and prevent demonstra-
tions of any kind in front Of the en-
bassy or the other American offices.
Threatening letters warning of re-
prisals In the event of the death of
the two men were also received to-
day by the American consul general.
Alexander NJ. Thackara. and the
American consuls at Marseille, Bor-
deaux and Lyons. In consequence of
this strong forces Of police are guarding
the new building near the Place de
L'Etoile. occupied by the reparations
and passport offices. and also the con-
police in Bordeaux. Lyons and Marseille
are guarding the consulate there.
One Letter Signed.
The letters to the passport and
reparations officials were not signed,
but a letter received by Mr.. Thakara
this evening was signed by the
communist organization in a small
town near Lille. 1t said that re-
against American citizens in France
If the men were executed.
No arrests were announced up to
a late hour tonight by the French
police in connection with the explo-
sion of a bomb in Ambassador Her
rick's home, and the 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
Americans See Plot.
Tho Americans do not accept this
theory of the police; they believe that
a widespread plot actually exists to
do serious harm to Americans. The
latest letter to the ambassador is
signed by the communicates socialist
and young communist organizations
of Chalons- Sur -Marne and is stamped
with the official seal OF these bodies
Today is the day generally set for
carrying out the threats and demon
strations. and the French police are
taking every precaution to prevent
gatherings Of any kind near the
buildings occupied by Americans,
Consul General Thackara has re-
ceived ten letters, but all couched In
mild language except one. OF those
sent to the ambassador today only
one 10 Of an inf1ammatory character;
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