Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — MUST FREE ALL AMERICANS [ARTICLE]

MUST FREE ALL AMERICANS

Secretary of State Colby Issues Order , to U. S. Commissioner. Wushlngton, Muy 21.—Hungarian communists held by the Austrian authorities must not be transferred to Russia without the reciprocal release of all Americans now detained In soviet Russia, the department of state informed the American commissioner in Vienna. , The views of this government, Secretary Colby announced, were In accord with those of other governments on the subject the proposed outright release of the Hungarian communists to Russia by the Austrian gojternment. Reports from various sources have reached the state department of the forcible detention in Russia of American citizens.' Owing to the lack of official relations between any of the principal governments of the world and soviet Russia, the United States has, therefore, undertaken to bring indirect. pressure to# bear. x