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Show TROTZKY SIS H!S ! MOB AGAINST U. S. AMERICAN ENVOYS ACCUSED BY BOLSHEVIKI LEADER OF - CONSPIRACY. Russian Colonel, Attached to U. S. Mis elon, Is Arrested on Charge of Trying Try-ing to Send Supplies to Counter-Revolutionists. Petrograd. Leon Trotzky, Bolshev ikl foreign minister, at a meeting o: the revolutionary organizations as sembled in congress, on Sunday rea( documents and telegrams which he de ' clared contained evidence that Ameri cans were helping General Kaledines leader of the Don Cossacks. "Last night." said Mr. Trotzky, "w found that American agents In Russi; were participating in the Kaledine movement. We arrested Colonel Ko! r pastmikoff, attached to the America mission to Rumania, who was trying t get a trainload of automobiles, clotl Ing and supplies to Rostov. Among th documents was a letter from David I Francis (American ambassador t Russia) requesting that the train t given free passage, as It was bound fi the mission at Jassy. "One letter from Colonel Andean (head of the American Red CroTDis-sion CroTDis-sion to Rumania) to Kolpn.Pkr.ff said that if money were needed An bas.v,nrjhancis was ready to a vance lOOftT rubles on the account the Red Cros- .reSjAink thata0 American ambassador musfTDreak his silence now." "We will tell all the ambassadors, 'If you think you can with the help of American gold, under the guise of the holy mission of the Red Cross, support and bribe Kaledines, you are mistaken. If you think that you are no longer the represer riJ"ive of America, Amer-ica, but private advf Cr .ers, and the heavy hand of thr revolution will reach out after yvj.' .araT: " cheered these utterances utter-ances wildly. Madame Alexandra Kol-lantay, Kol-lantay, Bolsheviki minister of public welfare, moved then that the meeting send delegates to France and England "to light the torch of a world revolution." revolu-tion." Raymond Robbins, head of the permanent per-manent American Red Cross mission to Russia, on learning of the arrest of Kolpashnikoff prior to Trotzky's speech, offered to explain the matter to the Bolsheviki leader, but Trotzky refused to hear him unless he came as the representative of the embassy. Ambassador Francis, in a statement to the Russian press, declares that the embassy and the Red Cross are in no way involved In the counter-revolution. He says that Kolpashnikoff received no funds from the embassy. |