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Show COURIERS DISPATCHED TO AMERICA KILLED Soviet Ambassador Tells of Difficulties In M amtainmg His Communications WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. An offer to present to the senate committee ; investigating Bolshevik propaganda in j , the United States "true copies" of all I communications between himself and ! the Russian soviet government was made today by Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, Mar-tens, Bolshevik representative in this country. Former Senator Hardwick of ! Georgia, Marten's attorney, said, how-lever, how-lever, that it was desired that some of the letters be considered in executive j session as they might "involve others far beyond the sea in trouble." I He explained that he referred to ; those who assisted In maintaining the communication between the se)f-j se)f-j styled ambassador and the soviet I chiefs in Russin Chairman Moses reserved re-served decision as to an executive session. ses-sion. ' I want lo take up with you the mat-tor mat-tor of the list of 041 odd American 1 ; business concerns with which Martens ' j said soviet Russia could transact busi-! ; ness." said the chairman. "We asked ! I fnr n lie . l, ..ot muau vuilct'lUS WHICH I have contracts with Mr. Martens and for the amounts and commodities involved. in-volved. You gave us a list of concerns which were willing to do business." Mr. Hardwick then presented a statement of contracts, showing eight items, ihe largest a contract for $4.-500.000 $4.-500.000 of printing presses given the Lehigh Machine Co., Lehightou, Pa. All of the contracts, Martens explained, ex-plained, were conditional upon the stato department Issuing export licenses li-censes to the firms mentioned. "I have made no payments on these contracts except small ones to the extent ex-tent of $10,000," Martens said. "They were orders rather than contracts." As he was unable to ship goods to Russia, Martens said the comparatively comparative-ly small quantities delivered to him had been storde. Questioned as to how he received his funds. Martens said couriers were sent from Moscow "several times a ' month." i "Were they interrupted often," Chraiman Moses asked. "Several were caught and shot in j Finland," the witness said, "and others oth-ers were captured in Germany." Senator Brandegee. Connecticut, asked how many couriers had been sent. j After some hesitation Martens said about 20 had started from Moscow and 10 had reached him. I Martens refused lo tell how the couriers passed customs lines or to give ihe names of the couriers sent to him or by him to Russia. He said, however, as far as he knew none was an American citizen. ! Attorney Hardwick objected to such questions, declaring the subject was "delicate." No more questions on the subject were asked, but stopping Martens Mar-tens said some of the messengers had passports. "About 90 per cent failed to get through Germany," he said, adding that 10 couriers had tried that route. : He intimated the northern routes were safer. , oo |