New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Communists Threaten to
Blow Up Offices of
American Envovs if
Italians Are Executed
Mob Sings Defiance
At Brest Consulate
Police Guard Menaced
Buildings in Many Cities
and Herrick Is Cautious
By Wilbur F orrest

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,.,,v-,rhf 1921 New YORK Tribune Inc
PARIS. Oct. 20.-An international
Communist Mot AGAINST Americans in
rprope, stretching from the North Sea
"a the Med 'terraneen. hos been un-
nrthed by the police. They are seek
he the perpetrators of bomb outrage
,s,t nieht at the residence of Ambas-
ssdor Herrick in the Avenue de Mes
sine. in which the ambassadors valet
vas wounded.
Three hundred threatening or pro-
.es.ing letters have been received this
week sf the American Embassy. and
lsrge numbers have come also to every
American consulate of any Importance
IN this country and Belgium, warming
that vengeance will be wreaked if Bar
telemeo vanzetti and Nicolo Sacco.
sho were convicted of murder in Massa-
thusetts, are put to death. One men
scing letter among seventy received
at he enNassv aere to-d,v declares
that the Reds will "get" Herrick and
ihe members of his staff if the murder
ers are executed.
Threats All Over Europe
Communist demonstrations are being
arried out all over Europe. The
american Embassy in Rome has re-
teived Communist threats. At the hour
tfat the bomb exploded in Ambassador
Herrck's house, Communists in Br1s-
sels were carryi g out an insulting
dsmcnstration in front of the Ameri-
can Embassy there. The Reds paraded
The streets of Brest. surrounded the
American Consulate and threatened to
destroy it.
ambassador Herrick has placed the
ease in the hands of the police and
guards, some in uniform and some ont
are patroling both the embassy
grounds in the Rue Chaillot and the
sngoy's home. All mail received at
beth places is being carefully in
sTeeted before being opened,
1t was learned to-day that the am
osssador himself came close to open
Jug the package yesterday which con-
'ained the bomb. Several times he was
st his seeretary's desk yesterday morn
ing asd twice picked up the package
and glanced at the address. He
fingered it absentmindedly as he
saiFed to his secretary, but finally left
lylng there unopened. 1t was sew
enl hours later that it was opened
Oy his valet at the ambassadors home,
where it had been sent. If the am
0assador had opened it, as he fire.
q'eatly does packages that come to the
embassy, it is believed that both he
ana his secretary would have been
killed.
Ciew to Sender Found
In Investigating the bomb explosion
.ne police found a remnant of the card
beard box in which the mac. inc had
been mailed 1t bore the address and
p9stoitlce markings, disclosing that it
haa been mai ed Tuesday morning at q
pos al sub-station in the Rue Pontoise,
IN the vicinity of the Paris botanical
gardens, on the left bank of the Seine.
. Inc package had been registe, ed, and
t'e postal authorities therefore have
Inc Signature, forged or genuine as it
may De, of the person who mailed it
oseause os n this country a slip must be
ale1 cut and signed with every regis
wfed package. By comparison of this
anandw,rlting with that on the package
me police hope to make some progress
toward Va solution of the mystery.
ire bill boards of Paris were covered
..eU'oay with advertisements posted by
.ne communists of great mass meetings
W oe neld to-mo row and Sunday to
protest AGAINST the executions, which
are a. termed American injustice" Al
;saough France is land of free speech
y y was indicated authoritatively that
VI we po Ice would attend those meetings
~ laree numbers and that interference
was not mp ohahle