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Show 1 RUSS REDS EVADE I DUTCH BLOCKADE iN ilti UNDERGROUND 8Y8TEM IN U8E Wt TO oniNQ 80VIET MEMDER8 M INTO HOLLAND. Q Constant Current of Soviet Members Hfl CroMlno and Recrosslng Dutch IB Frontier In Spite of Vigilance 4251 of Quard System Maintained. 3BI Rotterdnra. Holland lias cstabllshca jfflH a great cordon along thu German WBS frontier to prorcut Uio Influx of largo fBfi, numbers of Hussion bolshevik agents B from Germany. Heavy guards are ! jualntalncd, ho that persons wishing to IDS cross Um boundary In cither direction ttfS must pass through frontier posts and HU over recognized highways. Thoso who ByU attempt surreptitiously to cross run wBm -bo r'Htc of being shot. Bn Theso precautions havo failed, how- oVB over, to check tho movement of soviet MJM agents. Men whom tho pollco would 11 1 llko to Intcrvlow havo been seen In IH this city and Amsterdam, hut when tho SBJ police set their dragnet for their Bj quarry the men wanted havo utterly BB vunlshed. Lntor thcro usually conies HK luformatlon that the suspects huvo MJf been found In Germany and are on U2 their way to tho Russian frontier. fiftX Tho. system followed resembles the Mm "underground railroad" by which fu- XM gltlvo slaves moved through northern UK states t Canada In tho days beforo IjHjj tho i ti civil war. Tho undor- IH gro' olroad Is utilized by sovlot w agoi ,. to bring Into Holland bolshevik Hi "missionaries," who aro to mako nt- Bag tempts to reach America. Thcro ap- H pears to bo a constant current of theso Hi men crossing nnd recrosslng the fron- Hjj Ucr., Every means of getting them HJH1 tnto Holland Is used. During recent jn months many I'oles havo gono to Amor- jKj icn and somo of them havo been desert- JPJI en from General Pllsuriskl's armies. BV It Is said regularly organized bureaus Hj wero established to help these men jX evado military duty and go forward Kj Jnto Holland, and that among them jK were many bolshovlk ngents. |