The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-26
ERA Of
KILLING
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Frank Threat Given Out by
Russian Red Leader, Now
Believed in Ruhr.

BERLIN, May 26.-German
newspapers declared today that
the Red rising in the Ruhr is the
opening gun ina deep-laid Mos
COW plot for the Bolshevists to
sweep through central Europe
Three Russian communists, ar
rested at Dortmund, were serving
as couriers.
Karl Radek, the cleverest and
most cynical spokesman in Europe,
is in Berlin.
Predicts Era of Killing.
1--WE will not accuse Lord Curzon
British foreign minister) Of having
hired the assassin Of Vaslav Vorov-
sky at Lausanne" said Radek.
same murder was the beginning Of
carefully plotted series of assas-
sinations of Soviet officials and
ENJOYS, but I will say one thing:
When we begin killing we will
aim straight and the death toll of
our enemies will be far greater than
our own"
This exclusive statement to Inter
national News Service was the
frankest threat that Radek ever ut
tered for publication, and he has
published some menacing warnings
in the official Soviet organs at
Moscow. It comes just at the time
when the papers are raising a hue
and cry over "a Bolshevist plot in
the Ruhr."
May Be in Ruhr.
Immediately after giving the in
terview, Radek disappeared, pre-
sumably to take command behind
the scenes in the Ruhr. Arrest of
the three Russian Communist
''couriers'' at Dortmund, which was
recently the scene of disorders in
which about fifty persons were
wounded, lends weight to the ac-
cusation that a systematic Red
campaign has been launched in an
effort to break through from. Russia
into continental Europe.
After carefully feeling out the
situation, the Communists in the
Ruhr commenced in earnest The
violence has conferred in two towns
-GelseHkirchen and Dortmund. A
! Red committee was in control of
the former town at latest reports.
According to German officials.
| who are combating the Red wave.
the communists strongest ally is
French militarism which is playing
the role Of "silent partner"
Red Alliance Charged.
In an article headed Soviet Star
and Tri-color," the newspaper Tag
charged today that an alliance ex.
lists between the French and Ger
man Reds. The paper asserted that
French agents furnished money and
arms to the Communists.
But this unnatural alliance will
blow up like a soap bubble" pre-
dicted the paper.
French troops have given the
| police no aid. Germans are bitterly
commenting, saying that 'the
same military which, upon slight
est provocation, conducted punitive
expeditions with the flourish of
tanks and cavalry, now calmly
stand by while the Red hordes are
plundering and killing. firing town
halls and staging bloody street
fights"
But this attitude of the occupa-
tional forces, which the German
press denounces in the most venom
Gus terms, is regarded in some
quarters as 1.-The best thing that
could possibly happen to Germany.
These quarters compare French
benevolent neutrality to the action
of the German military leaders in
war time in allowing Lenin and
other Reds to traverse Germany to
traverse Germany to Russia where
they launched the Bolshevist up
heaval.
An old Prussian military chief
in discussing the situation with In
ternational News Service, said:
"French support of the Reds in
the Ruhr viii be q terrible boom