Show I RUSSIA HOLDS I DISTRUST FOR ALL BRITONS DAVIS DAMS F FINDS I N D S England Eng Suspected of Constant Spying and Agitation Agi ta tion FRIENDLY TO U U. s sI S. S Secrets Gained Gainel Bri Bri- Lain fain Given to America EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE This is the in a series of articles by Je Jerome Je- Je Jerome Jerome rome Davis member of the faculty of the Yale University Divinity School who has spent several months in Soviet Russia as a special special special cial correspondent for The Standard- Standard Examiner and NEA Service By lly JEROME JERO DAVIS Member of the Faculty Yale Uni University Divinity School Oct 22 To To under under- understand understand understand MOSCOW stand the Russian Ru lan psychology itIs it itis ItIs is necessary to remember that since the revolution re of a decade ago England has taken an active e part partin in nearly all the attacks of the various White Armies against the Soviets E of recent months the months the Invasion of the Soviet embassy In fn Peking the blockade of the consulate consulate consulate late In Shanghai the raid on the Soviet trade delegation offices In London and the murder of the So Soviet So- So Soviet viet Iet Ambassador in Warsaw War War- saw were saw were in the opinion of most Russians all steps in a carefully planned and organized attack against Russia carried on by Great chiefly through groups in Poland Finland and Rumania CHARGE MURDER l PLOTS Towards the end of 1926 the Russian Ru lan G G. P. P U U. secret service sent cc says It successfully frustrated d one plot to murder P the chairman chair chair- chairman man of the central committee of the Union and later another against the chairman of the coun coun- council council council cil of peoples people's commissars cf cr the Ukraine At the same time the head of the secret ser ser- service serIce ser ser- service vice Ice at Leningrad was shot at and his assailant the son of a colonel In the White Guard army was arrested In March 1927 plots against the lives of o the editor of Pravda chairman of the peoples people's commissars and Stalin head of the communist t party were uncovered and the assailant Gure- Gure Gurevitch of White While Guard fame was taken In May a group of former officers om- om officers cers In the Kolchak army were arrested and are said to have confessed con con- confessed confessed to relationships with a Mr White the head bead of the consular department of the British Mission in Moscow r. r The Soviet let claims they had planned to blow up the Kremlin and perhaps the Great Theatre during one of the meetings of the party At the te end of May 1927 a powder pow powder der magazine was fired In Lenin Lenin- grad The Russians think it t was set off oU by the commander of the magazine in to the of the British NEST EST OF 01 SPIES On June 3 the secret service de department de- de depart part ent captured a bomb of French make but with a British case case Intended so It ft is claimed forthe for forthe forthe the headquarters of the secret ser ser- service service vice department in Leningrad On June 7 l two bombs were hurled Into the Communist party club in Leningrad wounding 30 people some of them seriously In Leningrad the Soviet police claim to have uncovered a spy nest of the British and Finnish governments Twenty-five Twenty agents were arrested who finally confessed con con- confessed that they were ere securing secret information regarding the Baltic fleet neet and the military forces forces of Russia the Russians say In each case the Russians proved to their own satisfaction that back of the criminal was English gold On June 7 l the decree giving the 0 G G. P. P U U. secret service ice the right to act lct as an extraordinary court virtually a martial court was court was re enacted Following all the suc suc- successive conspiracies plots and mur mur- murden murders ders den 20 monarchists and spies were svere executed In July after ex- ex by by the secret service While this summary action is to tobe tobe tobe be deplored the Soviet Justifies It Iton Iton iton on the th grounds that foreign spies and plots and the rupture of diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- diplomatic matic relations made such action necessary In the feverish excitement of Russian officialdom in the face of acts and the even more terrible imaginings as to what Eng Eng- England England England land was planning to do the Soviets failed to take into account the damaging effects of such executions on foreign countries INFORMATION J TO U U. S. S Not only do the Russians point to the concrete cases already de described de- de described scribed but they have a 11 mass maIlS of evidence which they believe e In Incriminates In- In Incriminates criminates criminate the British directly In Inthe Inthe Inthe the summer of 1925 Sidney G. G Riley formerly captain captain- Ir in ire the Royal Air AJr Force and a a. member of the British secret service was arrested crossing crossin the Soviet Finnish frontier disguised as U asa Ua a Russian merchant I with a Soviet passport pa port He Lie finally confessed that he had come had come to Russia on his' his own 01 0 1 to organize Insurrections Just before coming coining be he claimed to have ha had a personal conference with the chancellor of the ex- ex eh che u r Winston Churchill An n interesting feature of his testimony mony was that the British secret service Ice hands over everything front from the material at its disposal which h might be of interest to America to the American secret service This is in accord with information given ghen to me by Senator Borah about the tho sources of some of the material ma in the state department on Russia ATTENDS TRIAL L While I have been in Moscow the trial of occurred and I was Invited to attend confessed to fabricating Soviet let documents and said he sold them to consulates and embassies especially the English and Bulgarian The forgeries implicated Russia lussia and the Communistic In In- In and were published all over the world It Is claimed one was sold to the represents represent representative tire tive of an American newspaper in Berlin for 50 This document purported to show that the Com Corn Communist Communist had spent to the American Communist party A V DAMAGING G LETTER LETTERA A damaging document England Is Li a latter from the British consul in Leningrad to the British trade mission in Moscow dated April 22 1924 The conclusion reads It is is not an easy matter for me meto meto meto to obtain the information you re require re- re require require quire for my Russian birds which I send out for such 6 purpose run runa runa runa a aery very ery serious danger d nger of being hanged or quartered by the G G. P P. U U. for espionage The British now admit the authenticity of this let let- Jet Jet- Jetter letter ter but try to show that It it was not Intended seriously So 50 far for I have ha tried t cd to explain the Russian position and the rea rea- reasons reasons reasons sons for the existing psychological cal hatred for the Conservative British party There are arc no doubt many factors on the other side which have ha provoked the activity of Great Britain Russia has done in inexcusable In- In excusable things and some of the same officials who blame England for recent terrorist activities probably probably ably were rere responsible for for similar work a 11 few years previous TO BE DE REGRETTED It Is probably true true- that the Com Com- Communist Communist Communist quite apart from the Soviet government go has hassent hassent sent tent some small financial help to English Communists It lt Is also true that the Russian government go has executed some spies with a hearing by the O. O P P. U. U only Both these facts are to be regretted Undoubted Undoubted- Undoubtedly ly the minds of Russian officials have been so Inflamed that much of what they attribute to the British Is s only the work of Russian mon mon- Enough has been established to prove that England docs not come into court with clean hands The activity of the British spy Paul Dukes is well known In 1918 In Archangel the writer niter stayed up one Ol entire night trying to persuade him pot not to enter Russia Rus Rus- Russia sia sla as a spy of the British govern govern- ment Nevertheless he went in ready to organize revolts against a the Bol Bol- Later as ns is well known he was knighted by the King of England for his activity In Rus Rus- Russia Russia sia sla as a spy Spy Sp organizations on the part of Great Britain provoke atlon This is not the road to peace and friendship between the nations The hope of Russia lies In get get- getting getting ting Ung away from a II war psychosis America is the one nation for which above all others Russia has a friend friend- ship Now Is a unique opportunity for the United States to enter Russia to settle our differences to promote pro pro- promote promote mote mote- friendly trade Even large sectors lectors In In the Ish is nation would be glad If It we I Idid did this Sir George of England England Eng Eng- England land told me that If lf the United States would start business relations with Russia on a more active scale she would not only be helping to I bring bring- In International peace but would be rendering a service to the British people |