Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-22
(By Il. Harper Leech.)

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Washington. D. c., Nov. 22.-Now
that the prospect of a separate peace
between Germany and the chaotic
fragments of government remaining
in Russia is becoming imminent,
fresh analysis is being made here of
Russia's contribution to the allies
warfare.
The question is being seriously
asked whether, after all, Russia has
ever been at war with Germany.
There are men, not cranks. who
seriously believe that, when the bal
ance is struck between the benefits
that Germany has derived and the
damage she has suffered from Rus
sian participation in the there
will not be much difference-perhaps
a net gain to- Germany.
In the first place, Russia was never
intellectually at war with Germany
except in the brief period when the
Lvoff- Milukoff government was in Of
flee.
Under the autocracy there was no
will to conquer In the government,
while the army and the whole gov
eminent machinery back Of the army
was ~honeycombed with pro-German
treason.
Under Kerensky there was instabil-
ity of purpose.
The Lenine-Trotzky episode, OF
government, or whatever it is, con-
stitutes a part of the German machin-
cry, just as the Italian official Social
list party II 'th~ Commanded $50.
~cialist' party Of Hillquit and Be,
are aiding Germany IN her world
wide propaganda
Lenine-and that isn't his name
was sent to Russia by Germany. His
activities were financed with Ger.
man coin, and one of his speech
es on peace was proved to be
an almost literal paraphrase OF
a wireless message from Prince
Leopold n General Hindenburg
stein-in his very brief career ir
America was connected with the Ger
man propaganda, the revelations ir
the Won Igel papers showing that the
paper Novy Mir. with which he was
connected in New York, vas under
the influence of the German spy and
propaganda systems.
At the beginning Of the war the
Russian invasion of East Prussia led
up to the battle of Tannenberg-a
complete Russian debacle and a great
stimulant to German morale. That
treason led to the trapping Of the Rus.
sian army has long been asserted in
military circles.
The fiction that the Russian advance
A0u LILY C1LCSt III lIe west front cam
, paign and the battle of the Marne has
! Q been disposed of. The obligint
Russian generals who led their troops
into the Hindenburg trap did not
cause the diversion of any great mum.
bers of troops from the west.
Later on, in the secon Eas,
Prussian campaign they repeated
the same maneuver with the same
results. The mysterious disap.
pearance of the Russian Genera
Sievers-Baltic-G German in BLOOD
and the rumors of his suicide
were followed by charges that thu
Take 2-HOW RUSSIA
Russian generals were receiving five
rubles a head for the Russian prison.
ers taken by Germany.
These prisoners were invaluable IL
keeping up Germany's labor supply
and allowing her to use all her mar
power.
Red Cross officials have ASSERTED
that over 100000 Russians came int
the German line and voluntarily sur
rendered, after the Germans had ad
vertised among them that they woult
pay a handsome sum for their, rifles
. which constituted the most valuabl,
personal property most of the NULL
soldiers had ever been possessed of
The Russian Ofensives against Aus
tria did not hurt Germany in tn,
slightest, but they did lead dicertl,
up to the. realization of the mos
important item in Germany's schem,
for world empire, through the ere
alton of h middle Europe and Der
ltn-to-Bagdad unity.
II Austria had not been almost OF
the point sof. collapse. as the result
OF the Russian, invasion, she wouls
never have yielded UP her sover
!. eighty to Germany. After the de-
struction Of her armies Austria hat
to pay any price for German aid. an.
as a result, Germany took practica
possession Of the H~apsburg empire
took the gold. out of the Austrian
bank: put her commanders over prac
tically all the armies, mixed Germa,
troops IN AL austrian units and LII,