The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
More Light On
| lHlperiaIist Plots
Against the USSR

LONDON, July 6.-Further light
IS thrown on the exploits of Sydney
Reilly, British spy and counter-revo-
lutionary agent of Churchill and
Lockhart who was recently executed
by the U. S. S. r. for high treason,
in pamphlet published by Rene
Marchand in 1919, entitled "Why I
support Bolshevism'.
Marchand, conservative journalist
at that time, was the Moscow cor
respondent of one of the most re-
dictionary Paris newspapers, the
Figaro" There is a descriptive
passage in this pamphlet, concerning
Reilly, which leaves no room for
doubt as to the character of this
blackguard imperialist agent who
would stop at nothing, murder, arson
or the deliberate starving of Russian
workers and their children, for the
chance of strangling the proletarian
state and reinstating the murderous
regime of imperialist capitalist ex-
ploitation in Russia Marchand
says:
cat the end of August a meeting
was held at the American Consulate
General, now flying the Swedish
flag No doubt the meeting of
which | speak was not official. 1t
rather resembled a private CONVEX
sation. But nothing can detract
from the significance of the fact
that in the presence of the official
representatives of the United States
and of France, in the presence of
the Consuls-General Poole and
Grenard,
A British officer, without inter-
ruption. and therefore without the
smallest expression of disapproval
from the consuls, talking loudly,
though in sort of aside, with a
French agent, gave detailed EXPOSE
ton of a plan for blowing up a Fridge
by which, just before the station of
Zvanka, the railway crosses the river
Volkhoff. The extraordinary COM
mission subsequently identified the
officer in question as Lieutenant
Reilly.
"a peculiar significant fact is that
Reilly was far from attempting to
conceal the gravity of the conse-
quences that would result from the
successful carrying out of his scheme.
In the coolest possible way he ex-
planned that the destruction of this
bridge would cut off Petrograd from
communication, not only from the
north, but also with the east by the
Vologda- Viatka line.
"By this line alone Petrograd re-
ceived the greater part of it's food,
and the supply was already insult
ficient for the population.
Reilly ended by pointing out that
the blowing up of the bridge would
Immediately result in an absolute
famine for Petrograd.
To Starve Workers.
"Those who would be starved
would not be the fortunate minority
of rich bourgeois, who would always
be able to make their way southwark.
The sufferers would be, chiefly or
exclusively, the manual workers, en-
ployees in the lower grades, women,
children and old men. But this ter
rible prospect caused no uneasiness
to Reilly, who continued to elaborate
the details of his scheme. Not for
moment, either, did it disturb the
equanimity Of Pool or Grenard, to
whom the plan, it seemed, was no
novelty
"The French agent to whom Lieu
tenant Reilly was speaking was M.
de Vertamond. At an earlier date he
had been introduced to me in the
French. consulate by Mr.. Grenard,
who informed me that he was
French naval officer engaged in
obstructive work" in the Ukraine.