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Show RUSS REDS m DUTCHBLOCittDE ' UNDERGROUND SYSTEM IN USE TO BRING SOVIET MEMBERS INTO HOLLAND. Constant Current of Soviet Members Crossing and Rccrossing Dutch Frontier in Spite of Vigilance of Guard System Maintained. Itotlcrilmii. Holland lias e.slablisln-u n gri.-at cordon along Hit; J i'i i i ;i n frontier to prevent the Influx of large numbers of Itu.ssiaii bolshevik agents from (ici'inany. Heavy guards are maintained, so tliat persons wishing to cross tin; boundary in either direction must pass through frontier posts anil over recognized highways. Those who uticuipt xiirreptll iously to cross run tin: risk of being shot. These precautions have failed, however, how-ever, lo check the movement of soviet agents. Wen whom the police would like to Interview have been seen in this city and Amsterdam, but when the police set their dragnet for their quarry the men warned have utterly vanished. Later I hen; usually coined in format Ion that the suspects have been found In Germany and are on their way to the Kussian frontier. The system followed resembles the "underground railroad" by which fu-gilive fu-gilive slaves moved through northern slates to Canada in the days before the American civil war. The tinder-ground tinder-ground railroad is utilized by soviet agents to bring into Holland bolshevik "missionaries," who are to make attempts at-tempts to reach America. 'There appears ap-pears to bo a constant current of these men crossing and recrossing the frontier. fron-tier. Every means of getting them Into Holland Is used. During recent months many Poles have gone to America Amer-ica and some of them have been deserters desert-ers from General Tilsudskl's armies. It Is said regularly organized bureaus were established to help these men evade military duty and go forward Into Holland, and that among them were many bolshevik agents. |