The New York herald., 1871-09-12
Germany FOOling Russia by the
Versailles Treaty.
German Astuteness Building Aerial Cas-
ties for GOrtchakOff.
Russia Now Where France
Was in 1865.
1elEeaAm TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.


PARIS, Sept. IL, 1871.
The following are the principal conditions
of the treaty which was made between Russia
and Prussia, through their representatives, at
Versailles early in the present year. The facts
contained in the document have, until to-
day, been most scrupulously withheld
from the public, although the announce
ment of the completion of the ar
rangements between the two governments
is several months old. 1t Is now clearly
shown that this treaty had for its object the
prevention of any interference on the part of
Russia in the war between France and Ger
many, and that since the conquest Of the
former country Bismarck's policy has been but
too clearly seen by the Gear, who now finds
himself in the same position that Napoleon
the Third was after the battle of Sadowa:-
WHAT BISMARCK PROPOSED TO RUSSIA.
The first stipulation of the treaty was that,
should crisis arrive and war be declared
involving the intervention Of Austria Cor If
Austria should become direct agent 10 pro-
posing any measures which might produce
rupture in Europe), Russia, it was to be dis
tinctly understood, would participate in the
war, her army acting in conjunction with the
armies of Germany for conquest.
HooDwNKINa GoRTouAKoFF.
In the body of the treaty Bismarck made
grand coup. By adroitly pretending to Prince
Gortchakoff that it was absolutely necessary
that Russia should furnish a number of
ships-of-war-which were speciGed-armed,
equipped and provisoned for the purpose Of
providing Prussia with the means Of resisting
an enemy at sea, and for the defence of their
seaports, the Russian Premier consented to
supply the ships-of-war, which were to be
under the direction of the councils at Berlin
and St. Petersburg. In addition 1t was also
specified that Russia should supply large,
well-disciplined, trained army to take the
field under general orders.
AUSTRIA WAS TO BE OUT UP AND SHARED.
These two Powers. supposing their COM
bined strength should place them before the
world as victors, were to make peace only on
the following terms-viz., that Austria should
renounce forever in favor of Germany the
whole of the Bohemian territory, all Moravia,
the province of Silesia and the duchy of Salz-
burg.
Austria was also to renounce in favor Of
Russia the entire provinces of Gallacia and
Dalmatia.
RUSSIAN TERRITORY AND THE sEApoRrs THE
NEXT SLICE FOR GERMANY.
When the fortunes of war had decided in
their favor, all the arrangements named in the
treaty completed, and all these changes should
be an accomplished fact, the further stipula-
Hons of the document provided that Russia
should then cede to Germany five of her prin-
cIpal seaport towns on the Baltic coast, with
their harbors, fortresses and lines of defence.
She was also to cede to Germany part of
the province Of Courland, of which wilma
would be the chief town.
BISMARCK OVERRIDING THE TREATY OF PARIS
Prussia, In making these overtures to Rus
sia, has violated the Treaty of Paris, which 1t
thereby regarded as null and void, by pedg-
Ing an armed participation In the conquests in
the East, and agreeing to supply force and
the sInews of war equal to Russia, and the
subsequent partition Of the conquered terri
tory.
THE SCALES TAKEN FROM aoRrosHAKoFFs
EYES.
Prince Gortschakoff, having waited until the
war between France and Germany had ended,
finds from the manner in which the affairs
have been managed recently between the
the Courts Of Berlin and Vienna, that Russia
has been as completely fooled by the machina-
tions of Bismarck In relation to this treaty and
it's conditions the same as France was, when,
in 1866, under similar secret treaty with
Prussia, Bismarck agreed to give Luxembourg
and other territory to Napoleon on condition
that he abstained from aiding Austria on the
Schleswig- Holstein question.
HUNGARY.