The New York herald., 1921-09-04
JAIL TO HIDE PLOT
OF CORKY AGENTS
BOlsheviki Used Names of
Men as Bait for Ameri-
can Aid.
FL4OUT FRENCH RELIEF
Radek Says Paris Tries to
Eaise Quotation of
Gar Ruble.
SUSPICIOUS OF NOULENS
Reds Fear Whites Will Exploit
Famine to Overthrow
Soviet System.
SUSPICIOUS OF NOULENs

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Special cable to THE Nsw York HERALD.
Copyright, 1891, by THE NEW York HERALD.
REvAL, via LONDON, Sept 3.---The
Russian Soviet Government has just
made public a mass of evidence ex-
planning its reason for the dissolution
of the Russian famine commission
headed by Maxim Gorky but obviously
the evidence is incomplete and In
sincere, as the Bolsheviki conceal the
fact that they arrested and imprisoned
leading members Of the commission to
prevent the truth from leaking out.
1t is impossible for a well informed
observer to believe that NM. Kishkin.
Prokopovich and Golovin-the last
having been President of the second
Duma, and all of whom are patriotic
Russians with high sense of honor.
used the famine for plotting the over
throw of the Soviet Government.
The Bolsheviki simply acted in this
matter as they did when they dissolved
the Constituent Assembly. They used
the names OF honorable men as bait
for American famine assistance and
then they imprisoned these men be-
cause they refused to play the Bolshe-
visit game. Lenine would have kept
them, but the Extraordinary Commit
tee got the upper hand, just as the
BLACK Hundred got the upper hand of
the Gear.
Now. the Bolsheviki are extremely
nervous regarding the possible effect in
America Of the dissolution of this fam
Inc commission, and accuse 1t of mix
ing too much with foreign relief repre-
sentatives.
Radek Attacks French.
Karl Radek. the we'll known Bolshe-
visit Commissioner, writing in the
Prada, INDUCES in the widest kind
of an attack on the French. who, he
charges, are using starving women and
children as a means OF raising the ex-
change quotations on the Czar rouble
on the floor of the Paris Bourse. The
attack is so ferocious that it really has
the effect of endangering the lives OF
all foreign relief workers in the famine
districts.
For this. however. the French are
partly to blame. judging by extracts
from their newspapers which have been
cabled to Moscow and by the record OF
the French members OF the Interna-
are Gen. Pau. who has been accused
of having the closent kind of connection
with the Russian monarchists, and M.
Riraud. who once lived In Moscow and is
disiked there.
Another member of the committee Is
M. Nouiens. who is known among many
persons in Russia as juggler In finance
and politics and who, it was declared.
subsidized the Jaroslaff and other anti
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servers admit il was irdiscreet on the
part OF France TO nominate NJ. Noulens.
whose diplomatic colleagues in Moscow
in 1918 admitted he was ferociously
Bolsheviphobe.
There is no criticism Of the American
or English famine relief workers In
Radekss article which ends with the
declaration:
THE Boisheviki also are nervous over
the appearance of Marshal Foch in War
saw where the military representatives
of Rumania and the Baltic States are
assembled. The meeting in the Polish
capital does not look to Lenine like
famine relief congress"
Reds Fear Undcrmfning.
| The Reds think that the Whites are
using the famine and the Introduction
of foreign relief workers as a means
to overthrow the Soviet system--a
suspicion which has been strengthened
by the tactless methods used by the
-Bolsheviki. The breach between the
Bolsheviki and the Gorky Commission
was widened by false statements pub
lished in the White Russian press and
in Paris newspapers to the effect that
in the provinces the -Bolshevist
famine committee is. at the request of
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government, the Soviet system having
been abolished in these provinces.
AS a matter Of fact, none OF the nom
Bolshevist committee members have en-
tered the provinces, despite the fact
that the Moscow Government wanted
them to do SO. However, oil these nom
Bolsheviki wanted TO go abroad, which
Moscow refused to allow them to do.
Following the dissolution of the nom
Bolshevist famine committee the Mos
COW Government issued this statement
I'VE deeply regret the fact that we
were compelled to close the work of the
committee, which had fallen under the
influence of the Whites and the French
imperialsts. who would utilize the
famine to overthrow the Soviet Govern
ment. The committee refused TO obey
orders for it's members to proceed to the
famine area.
"All the blame rests with the reac-
tionsries. who are angry at all the Rus
sian parties. which are uniting with the
Bolsheviki In combating the famine
Both the Tsvcstia and the Pravda
boast that never did a famine produce
such cooperation as the present one In
Russia. In that there Is a universal
rush to Russia's rescue because the
worlds workers sympathize with the
Russian workers republic"
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