The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-01
ARREST IN FRANCE
REVEALS PLOT OF
REVOLUTION HERE
Scheme to Overthrow Gov
eminent in Europe aad
America Discovered.
FINANCED BY MOSCOW
Police Examining Bank Ac-
counts, Supplied by Rus
sian Gold.
saccial Cable to THE NEW YoaK HssALD
Copyright, i92i, by THE New YonK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Paris, Jan. 81.

Saccfdl Cable to THE NEW YoRK HBsALp.
Copyright, Io2i. oy THE New YonK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Jan. 81.
A Russian Soviet plot to start revo-
buttons in the United States, Holland,
Greece, Rumania and Switzerland, as
well as in France. financed direct from
Moscow, has been revealed by the
French police following the arrest
yesterday of DR.. T. Zalewsky. alias
DR.. Abramovitch. In Nice and score
of foreign radicals here. Another ar
rest was made here to-day and an
investigation into the bank accounts
of the men caught in the police drag
net yesterday was begun. 1t was
asserted here this afternoon that the
police were In possession of evidence
of the most conclusive character that
the Soviet plot aimed at the overthrow
OF the Governments in the countries
to which 1t extended and the setting
up there Of Soviet regimes.
Zalewsky. II was asserted. is an ennis
sary of Leon Trotzky, and at the
Socialist meeting in Tours this month,
when the radicals broke away from
the moderates, was referred to as 1.-The
ear of Moscow" Following his arrest
Zalewsky was said to have admitted
he was we'll known in radical circles
in the United States. The police assert
Zalewsky was at the head of scheme
secret agents from Moscow to go all
over the world. and. with the aid OF
Russian gold foment revolution
The arrest of Zalewsky was followed
by raids on houses where radicals were
known to reside and on clandestine
printing shop where thousand OF PAM
phlets were printed in Russian ano IN
German and widely oistriouteo LUZ pio-
paganda purposes.
that Moscow had sent large sums OF
gold and Jewels Of great value TO Paris.
which were placed to the credit o.
zalewsky and which he distributed
among his aids. Alsa several hundred
blank passports were said to nave Deen
discovered In a boarding house where
lived one of the men arrested yesterday.
These passports apparently were prlnted
in the printing shop In suourp Va
Paris which was seized by the ponce.
II was disclosed to-day that TINS shop
eStaDl1SneO Will |ac 49,
sian gold paid out by Zalewsky seven
months ago when he first came to Paris
To undertake his revolutionary mission
Rubber stamps to wise passports 10
the limited States and other countries
where the Bolshevist propaganda was .o
be undertaken also were founu, thus
confirming the revelations oy Ans.er
dam Socialists several weeks ago tna'
Moscow intended to undertake. revoiu'
ton in the United States simultaneous
with those it plotted to start In Euro
pean countries.
The police said the discovery OF the
Mot VISA due to the carelessness OF
Zalewsky in leaving a bundle OF letters
wrapped in a newspaper In PARIS
bakery. The baker who found them
read the letters In order to discover
their ownership and at once realized
the significance of the conspiracy and
the danger he would be In should they
be discovered in his possession he
notified the police at once and the ar
rests followed.
man named Ker editor of the VIC
Ouvriere, was arrested here this morn
ing charged with completely In the pass
mort plot. Since the Socialist congress
in Tours the Vie Ouurfere has been
under Moscow's direction, Leonid kras-
sine. Bolshevist trade envoy to London
having admitted while in England that
subsidies for several Paris newspapers
had been authorized by Moscow during
the last meeting of the Third Inter
rationale.
. The French secret police are still raid
ing Communist headquarters In Lyons
Marseiles. Bordeaux and Boulogne.