The New York herald., 1921-08-13
SAYS ONLY AMERICA
CAN Save RUSSIA
Henry j. La Mare, Freed
Prisoner, Believes Inter
yention Would Fail.
LENINE FULLY tanned
Declares He Will Do Any
thing United States
Chooses to Ask.
ADVISES RELIEF MEASURE
Asserts Distribution of Food
Should Be Supervised by
Americans.
LENINE FULLY tanned
ADVISES RELIEF MEASURE

Special Gable to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Coprri0ht, 1921, BY THE New YORK HERALD.
REvAL. via LONDON. Aug. 12.-The
former American prisoners in Russia
who were released by the Bolshevili
are now resting at the quarters Of the
American Red Cross in Reval. All of
them are pale and emaciated. One of
the most interesting is Henry j. La
Marc, formerly correspondent for the
Chicago Daily Neacs at Petrograd, af-
ter which he went into business there.
He claims that he amassed a colossal
fortune before and during the war.
The Reds took from him, he says.
s5,000,000 in cash and $4,000 900 in
investments and property, and even
stole his artificial teeth. He was in
prison twenty-one months.
The NEW York HERALD correspond
ent here knew La Marc in 1906 and
met him again last year in Moscow
when the Reds suspected that he had
100000 concealed and the chief OF
an extraordinary Soviet commission
expressed a determination not to let
him leave Russia until he had dis
closed the hiding place of this hoard.
Before his arrest La Marc was very
intimate with Lenine and Trotzky, hav-
ing been instrumental in saving Trotz-
kys life in 1906. Despite the sufferings
to which he mas been subjected he Is
impartial, and when asked as to the
ing who would replace the reds If they
were to 60 He believes that armed in
tervention would fail and that America
alone could save Russia as, in his opin-
ion. Lenine will do anything America
asks.
La Mare said: 'Lenine, who has been
tanned so that he will eat from the hand
of America. Is the most popular man
among the Russians, who won't have the
old regime back at any price, but Trotz-
Ky would try TO get back again to COM
munism and terror once the present
crisis was past What makes the Reds
hold on to power is their certain belief
that all of them would be killed If new
government were established no matter
what guarantees might be given"
Communism Killed.
Communism has been killed In Russia.
La Marc said emphatically Private
property has been reestablished and the
people are allowed as much money as
they like, but thus far nobody has en-
trusted a cent to the Government banks
which have been opened in the premises
of the old imperial banks throughout
Russia. La Marc told an amazing story
of his own dealings with the Reds
When they confiscated his property they
offered him any four concessions they
liked. He selected four of the biggest
factories in Petrograd. including a motor
factory. La Mare appointed the formers
owners Of the property as his managers
but the Reds wouldn't stand Tor that and
the s,cheme failed.
An American Jew named Nuroteva,
next tried to tackle the concession busi-
ness. but he is now In Jail. Nuroteva
was the head OF the American depart
ment of the Bolsheyist Foreign Office,
but he was accused of being associated
with Washington b. Vanderlip and lost
his job Two Italians employed on a
committee of the Third Internationale
dabbled In concessions and both were
put in jail
THE NEW YORK HERALD correspondent
told La Mare that Charles r. Crane.
former American Minister to China. had
said here that the Bolshevild were a set
Of scoundrels and that American relief
should be given In cooperation with the
Russian churches since the church is
the existing respectable organization.
La Marc agreed that the Bolsheviki
were scoundrels but thought that the
relief ought not TO be given through the
priests who would be partial and would
leave the Socialists to starve. American
relief. he said, should be supervised by
Americans. The Metropolitan Sergius
of Moscow was banished from Moscow
but the Patriarch Tikhon was Brought
by the Reds to live near Lenine The
Kremlin has thus acquired much
needed sanctity in the eyes of the COM
moners by housingg the head OF the Rus
sian church, who while he virtually Is
hostage. is permitted to have palace
and lives there in state. But he is never
permitted outside the Kremlin.
Tikhon Too Weak for Reds.
Tikhon has travelled In America visit
ing Russian churches there from the At
lantic to the Pacific. He Is very Amer
icaphile, clever and honest. but too old
and physically too weak TO cope with
the present situation lie deals diplo-
matically with Lenlne whom he does
not oppose yet he does not yield 70
Lenine personally. He is appalled, by
the ruin that has overtaken Russia and
said 70 La Marc: The destruction In
Russia IS SO deep and broad that no
imagination can picture H."
La Mare says that no serious conccs-
sions have been granted TO Nanderiip,
at least they are not seriously regarded
by the Reds.
On the night before the American
prisoners We're released NJ Moghilevsky,
head OF an extraordinary Soviet com
mission, asked them to remain In Rus
sia as free men. lie said lac would give
them a paper slgnifying this. When
they asked him II that paper would
guarantee them against arrest lac said
that 1t would not. whereupon they de-
cided to leave. But La Marc SAYS that
he Is willing to return 10 Russia to do
relief work.
When the released Americans were
nearing the frontier extraordinary conn
missions of police entered their car. and
they feared they would be taken back.
but the police took away only one
foreign woman, and the Americans were
delighted when they crossed Esthonia
and when they saw the American flag
waving from the headquarters of the
American Red Cross and found Red
Cross officials awaiting them with re-
freshments.
The British trade mission which has
opened offices at i6 Provorskay, In
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