San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-29
By JACOB NoZOVITZKY
Noted international Spy.


When successfully carried through
The matter of the Third international
/ was tired and nervous. Colonel
Garter, at Scotland Yard, agreed with
me that it would be well to take a
rest and recuperate. planned to
return to the United States, and after
= visit with Sylvia Pankhurst, who
.blso had just returned from the
Amsterdam meeting, ! engaged pass
age on the Berengaria.
But Scotland Yard suddenly found
= other and imminent work for me. The
day before / was to sail got a hurry
up message from Colonel Carter and
hastened to Scotland Yard.
- Il am sorry," he said, ito interfere
with your trip, but here is something
1--WE want you to 60 after right away.
"We received word several days
ago that secret Communist courier
had left Moscow and gone through
90 Finland into Paris. The Paris chief
of police had the man under sur
VIGILANCE and was able to telegraph
me complete description of him.
with the information that he was com
ing to London on an important mis-
sion to the British Communist heads.
We had every boat and train watched
and should have caught him from his
description but if he is here he has
.aaeluded us. IL is most important to
know if he is here and what he
came for"
SPY TRAILING SPY.
This sounded like very simple
"a order didn't it? These Scotland Yard
heads can ask for so much in so few
words! / hadn't thing to work on.
! pointed out that / was in deli
cate position with Rothstein, head of
, the British Communists, and also with
: Willis of the executive committee OF
the English Communist party ana
that these were the two persons to
whom such courier would report.
- Colonel Carter smiled reassuringly
and eai1 he was sure would get what
z i went after. Here was task that
> was going to tax my ingenuity. A
Imam left Moscow. He might be in
: England and might not. Utmost Sc
s,crecy would be thrown about such an
important courier. Scotland Yard
was watching Rothstein and Willis
3 to sec if they were in touch with
: any such person. But of course they
: would not be.
- There would be some very simple
: method Of communication. 1t would
! be so obvious that it would be almost
4.sure TO defy detection.
- / decided upon another visit to
\ Sylvia Pankhurst. She might know
Z something. Although she had her
: fights with Rothstein as to method
..sbe was really trusted in a general
sense as q real Communist at heart. j
/, could not ask any direct questions
, about courier or she would be on
7,her guard. / must have u plan. And
+, finally ] got it out Of the very air.
(. BATTING THE TRAP.
- / got q Miss Smythe, life long
friend of Miss Pankhurst, and began
debating a long report TO Zinovicv,
l.chairman Of the Third international,
''who, by the way, remained in Mos
cow and did not attend the Congress.
lin this report ] told of the insinua-
''tions that had been made about me,
,,but told him more particularly that
I'll had been charged with seeing that
"a full report of the trial of Louis
,Fraina in New York was gotten into
his possession. You will recall / had
taken two copies of that report. One
j gave to Fraina and one j kept. l
thanked my stars that / kept that
copy because it was now my only
hope.
q ] went on to say to Zinoviev that
,Fraina had started with his copy for
Moscow but that cf course he might
never get there and that, since the
!. Communist party Of America used me
fas a courier and had been so explicit
about wanting Moscow to know its
,.side Of the Ambassador Martens row