Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-12
SECRET WAR ORDER
F OF RUSS REVEALED
Car Planned Campaign
Against Germany in 1912,
German Paper Says.
PRINTS A PROCLAMATION

BERLIN, November II. by wireless to
Sayville.-The assertion of Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg in his address to
the reichstag main committee that As
| long ago as 1912 Russia had made plans
for war on Germany was supplemented
| today by the semi-oficial Norddeutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung. which published
what Is given as tho text Of the Rus
sian governments general order to which
| the chancellor referred.
In his address DIR. Won Bethmann- Holl-
veg said that at the time the war be-
gan there was still valid an order from
the highest place. that a proclamation
of mobilization would be at the same
| time a proclamation of war against Ger
many. The text of the order. as given
by the newspaper. follows:
Secret. Chief OF stan of tho Warsaw
military district.
'QuartermaSter generals section, mob
iliZation department.
September 80. 1912.
NO. 2450.
|. Urgent. To tho commander of the
9Th Army Corps:
Modify all former orders. l COM
municate the following by order Of the
chief commander:
1T is ordered from the highest place
that proclamation of mobilization at
the same time Is a proclamation of war
against Germany.
Germans Ready for War.
THE German army. in full readiness
for war. can complete the occupation of
strategic points in the district of the
Mazurian lakes on the thirteenth day Of
mobilization. The German vanguard
corps may cross the frontier on tho
tenth day.
The armed forces of Russia will be
divided into several armies. previously
assigned for simultaneous operations
against Germany and Austria Hungary.
The armies assigned for operations
against Germany will be combined into
one group under command of the chief
commander of the group Of armies be-
fore the German front. The second army.
to which the 9Th Corps belongs. will be
incorporated in group OF armies on the
northwest front. The staff of the chief
commander of the second army will
have quarters In Warsaw until the sew
enth day Of mobilization and later on at
Volkovisk.
Duties of Two Armies.
1.-The general task of the troops on
the northwest front, after the COM
pleIlOn OF COnCentTdtlOHs Will pc "
march against the armed forces of Ger
many, with the object Of carrying the
war into it's territory. The task Of
the second army will be the masking
OF mobilization and of the general con-
centration of armies. In any event the
army must maintain control of the
BialystokGrodn district. For this
purpose the second army will concen-
trate on the front of SopockiniLonza-"
Detailed orders are given. the news
paper continues, in regard to the dis
position of troops, transports. etc. and
finally the high political Importance of
the orders given is pointed out as fol-
lows:
The contents of this order are a
strict secret of state"
The order is said to have been signed
by Lieut.. Gen. Klioujew, Maj. Gen. Pos
tovski and Senior Adjt Col. Daler.
Valid When War Began.
The Norddeutsche AllgeIneine Zeitung
says this order was not Cancelled and
consequently was valid when the war
began. 1t adds that judging by the
close cooperation Of the Russian and
French general STATS the order also
must have been known to the French
government, and through 1t to the
British government. inasmuch as in the
y, NC n