The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-14
UNMASK HOOVER
AS AN ALLY OF
WORST REACTION
Daily Worker Prints the
Testimony
Continued from Page one.)
Contract Made With Gen. lanoff.

1.-THE contract was made with Maj.
Gen. Ianoff, chief of supplies of the
Russian North Western Army, but was
not carried out, as / received no de-
finite answer from Special Commits
sioner Haynes at Helsingfors, to
whom / referred the question.
Complaint was made to the Ameri-
can Relief Administration and the
London office of the Shipping Board,
as to mis- contract. 1t is my con-
tention that l was sent out to Reval,
thru mined waters and in time OF
war, at the instance of the aircraft
profiteering ring in America, against
whom / had been lighting, and that
they were anxious that l be discfed-
tied.
II was also in the position OF hav-
ing delivered the shipment of trucks
to Yudenitch, and that fact was en-
barrassing to those who gave me my
orders"
Martin has offered in evidence, in
his damage suit against the aircraft
combine in the Supreme Court Of
the District Of Columbia, copy Of a
telegram from one Leach, represent
ing the A. R. r. at Riga, addressed
to that organizations London Office,
dated Nov. 1, 1919, reading:
strongly advise In view Of dis
closures cominsky and General
Wall regarding conduct Master Of
Lake Fray that he will be relieved
Of command by next In line. Re-
taIned In command General Wall
thinks unsafe for him to return
London to give evidence.
The reference to Cominsky is OBJ
acure, but two days later another
cable from Leach to London said that
German woman from Berlin carried
by skipper on Cominsky reports wo-
men on board the Lake Fray all night
on several occasions" etc.
But the reference to General Wall is
clear. Martin shows a letter on the
stationery Of the Bureau Of Opera
tions, signed General Ernest N.
Wahl', under date Of August Is, 1919,
at Saint Nazaire, France, as follows:
I'VE, the undersigned hereby ac-
knowledge that Captain James v.
Martin Of the Lake Fray has fully
explained the conditions Of our resi-
dence aboard ship while enroute to
Russia. We understand that the Lake
Fray has no passenger accommoda-
tions and we agree to make the best
Of conditions aboard ship without
complaint"
Martin describes Wall as a former
imperial military governor Of Lenin-
grad who was chosen as the liason
officer between the Russian Whites
headquarters in Paris and the Yuden-
itch forces. Kolchak, Denikin, and
Yudenitch all took their orders from
Paris, and back Of this Paris bureau
were-Martin says he can prove
Herbert Hoover, Winston Churchill
and the French government.
The Trials Of General Wall.
Hoover sent me word that Gen.
VAIL was to travel aboard my ship to
Reval," said Martin. II asked for as
surance that the Shipping Board want
ed me to do this, because it was in
violation Of law. Hoover took it up
IN London and brought pressure on
the Shipping Board office, 80 that l |
received Official advice to take Gen. |
VAIL along This cable from Leach
to London shows that they were work
ing confidentially with him, and that |
he advised them that 1t would be I'M
safe to let me return and testify as
master Of a ship, as to what 1 had
been doing"
Somewhere in q safety deposit
vault, In city he will not name,
Martin now has a stack Of cable
grams. letters and other documents
which he says will be produced at the
proper moment to show that he was
merely doing what he considered his |
duty as a servant of the American |
government when he tried to furnish |
airplanes and machines guns to Yu-
denitch for the attack on Petrograd. |
He says he was intimately acquaint-
ed with the White Guard leaders, ana
heard from them the confirmation OF |
statements given to him in other quar-
ters as to the big political plot be-
hind the Yudenitch venture.
Aid From British Labor.
British labor, in Martins opinion,
had much to- do with the failure OF
the campaign to crush the Red Army
and stamp out bolshevism in Europe.
British labor raised such an outcry
that Churchill dared not move the
British feet from Reval toward Lenin-
grad as Yudeniteh advanced, and
Churchill dared not ship the planes
and tanks he had prepared to deliver
at Reval. The cautious Firms, having
equipped 10000 soldiers for a march
from Leningrad to Moscow. would not
stir until the British feet arrived at
Leningrad. And so the collapse came.
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