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Show BOLSHEVISTS TRAVEL OK FALSE PASSPORTS Credentials Describe Them as' Delegates of the American Red Cross Mission LONDON, Feb. 2 Bolshevist agents entrusted with messages rogarding sensational widespread red plans have, I boon foi considerable lime traveling, 'between Berlin and soviet Russia on I ; false credentials, it Is staled in offi-; I cial quarters. The credentials they: I carried are said to ha've described them as delegates of the American j I Red Cross mission in Berlin to con-tduct con-tduct Investigations regarding the exchange ex-change of German prisoners from Russia. These carriers, it appears, were carrying car-rying dispatches between Moscow and Bolshevist organizations in other countries, coun-tries, including the German Sparti-ciuts Sparti-ciuts and the Swiss communists. Lithuanian Lith-uanian authorities discovered the II- licit tra cling after Lithuania's bor-', ders had been crossed many times and a number of arrests followed. Not all tho couriers were provided with Am-h crlcun papers but such forged credentials creden-tials were found on several of tho prJs- oners. Working for Communists. i ivku muu no can ieu iceu i ross passes admitted they had nothing to uo with the American mission but in reality were working for the communists com-munists One woman, similarly equipped, equip-ped, who worked trom Dvinsk, said aht- had been Instructed to deliver documents doc-uments to persons she did not know personally. Most Interesting of the captures were two men en routo to Moscow by ; way of Berlin. Thoy carried letters j concealed in their nockties. One of , them was a German and a member of i tho Independent socialist parly of Ger-m.my Ger-m.my and the other wna a Swlssi belonging be-longing to an extremists' organization caned tho socialist-democratic organization organi-zation ot young people In Switzerland.! German Carries Letxer to Bolshevists- 'flu. German earned a letter from the head of a Spari'ncist organization (in Germany to M. Tchltcherin, Kuosian i Bolshevik minister or foroign alfairs. The tetter Indignantly denied tho report re-port that German Spartaclsts were couiuer-ievoiutionury to the Russian 'Bolshevists. It Is declared that Karl Radek (the Bolshevik propagandist , who recently left Berlin) could testify to the writer's communist sympathies. It was said further by tho writer that ihe was arranging with the Russian 1 Bolshevist ZInovleff with regard to spreading communist propaganda in all parts of the world by special courier cour-ier service from Berlin. Another letter seized, which was written by the same German, stated he had succeeded in inducing a staff of engravers lo print American, French and German passports for the use of couriers and suggested that tho Soviets make similar arrangements for Couriers from Russia to Germany. t Tho Swiss courier carried a it'rlter' from the secretary of an organization of extreme socialists in Berne to an editor of a red paper In Moscow, acknowledging ac-knowledging the receipt of Bolsnovik literature from Moscow, of which, he said, he had made great use, and asking ask-ing further supplies. Under interrogation the German courier declared the Geimau Independent Indepen-dent socialists would attack and overcome over-come the German government the moment mo-ment theywere assured of support from Lenine. oo |