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Show RUSSIAN OFFER TO SEND FOR RADICALS : REPRESENTATIVES OF SOVIET WOULD RID AMERICA OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. Ambassador of Trotzky and Lenine Declares His Readiness to Transport Undesirables Back to War and Famine Ridden Country. New York. Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, Mar-tens, self-styled "ambassador of the Russian soviet - government to the United States," has offered to provide transportation from the United States' to Russia for all Russian citizens who, desire to leave America, or whose presence in the United States is undesirable un-desirable to the federal government. This offer was made in a letter written writ-ten by Martens to Secretary of State Lansing and made . public Sunday night. In his letter Martens' protested against the "unwarranted and cruel treatment" to which many Russian citizens in the United States are subjected sub-jected "by the federal and state officers, offi-cers, as well as by mobs acting without with-out authority." He proposes that the soviet government be permitted to return re-turn the citizens to soviet Russia and declares that he has received thousands thou-sands of applications from such citizens citi-zens who are anxious to return to their homes. Martens was arrested for contempt Saturday and released on $1000 bail after he had refused to appear and bring certain documents before tha Lusk legislative committee investigating investigat-ing radical activities in New York. Calling attention to press reports that it is proposed to deport Russians to parts of Russia under control of the enemies of the soviet government, Martens, Mar-tens, in his letter to Secretary Lansing, Lan-sing, protests that such deportation would mean certain death for the prisoners' deported and would constitute consti-tute "a flagrant breach of all principles princi-ples of international law." |