You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday June 23, 1915
From The New York Times: Envoy Seeks Release of Reed and Robinson
From yesterday's edition of the New York Times we learn that war correspondent, John Reed, and illustrator, Boardman Robinson, are now being held by the military authorities of Russia. Ambassador Marye is actively seeking their release:
AID REED AND ROBINSON.
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Envoy to Seek Release of American
Correspondents in Russia.
Special to The New York Times.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-The State Department today forwarded to Ambassador Marye, at Petrograd, complete information for the identification of John Reed, an American war correspondent, and Boardman Robinson, an American illustrator, who are under arrest by the Russian military authorities at Kholmin, Russia.
Ambassador Marye, notified the State Department that Reed and Robinson had been arrested because they were found within the Russian military lines, and he asked for information to enable them to identify themselves so they might be released. Reed was recently a war correspondent in Mexico, following the army of General Villa before the revolutionists became involved in the split that followed Carranza's occupation of Mexico City. Robinson is well known in New York City, where he has been employed by newspapers and magazines.
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[Photograph added.]
From the Metropolitan of May 1915:
The following photograph of John Reed, Fannie Hurst, and Boardman Robinson is from the Metropolitan, from which magazine we expect to find several first-hand reports of the war in Eastern Europe in the coming months.
Two of the Metropolitan's writers and our artist, Mr. Robinson, taken in Washington Square just before leaving for the war. This is John Reed's second trip to the front. In the picture he is wearing a British Officer's field overcoat which he brought back from Northern France. In the autumn Mr. Reed saw the fighting in France and Germany and has already described it in the Metropolitan. He and Boardman Robinson are now with the Italian Army, and are making a rapid tour from Italy to Servia, to Constantinople, back with the Russians to Hungary, from there to Moscow and Petrograd and thence to England by way of Archangel.
He and Mr. Robinson will work together, Mr. Reed doing the writing, Mr. Robinson making sketches of the war. Most of drawings of the war heretofore were made up in London or New York by artists who have never seen the actual men in the field. Boardman Robinson is one of the ablest young artists of our times. With Reed and Robinson in the field the Metropolitan will be able to give readers the most striking and truthful pictures of the war yet published. Fannie Hurst, with whose keen, realistic stories the readers of the Metropolitan are familiar, goes to Italy and France in order to get material for fiction stories relating to the war.
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SOURCES
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-June 22, 1915
http://query.nytimes.com/...
Metropolitan
(New York, New York)
-May 1915
Photograph of Reed, Hurst, & Robinson,
with description.
http://babel.hathitrust.org/...
IMAGES
John Reed, Chicago Daily Tribune,
of July 4, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Metropolitan Magazine of July 1914,
John Reed in Corona Typewriter Ad
http://www.conradfirst.net/...
Cover: "The War in Eastern Europe," 1918 Copy
https://archive.org/...
See also:
The War in Eastern Europe
-by John Reed, illustrated by Boardman Robinson
C. Scribner's Sons, 1916
https://books.google.com/...
To read free ebook:
https://books.google.com/...
"Arrest A La Russe"
https://books.google.com/...
"Prison Life in Cholm"
https://books.google.com/...
"Further Adventures in Captivity"
https://books.google.com/...
Note: sadly there seem to be several
pages missing from free ebook, however,
the first link above leads to options to purchase
a copy of the book or find library copy.
Insurgent Mexico
-by John Reed
NY, 1914
https://archive.org/...
DK Search: John Reed + JayRaye
http://www.dailykos.com/...
John Reed: His Life and Work
https://www.marxists.org/...
Writings of John Reed:
https://www.marxists.org/...
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The Workers Song - Dropkick Murphys
But when the sky darkens
And the prospect is war
Who's given a gun
And then pushed to the fore
And expected to die
For the land of our birth
When we've never owned
One handful of earth?
-Ed Pickford
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