Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-22
RUSSIAN UPHEAVALS'
WORK OF GERMANS
Dr.. Edward H. Egbert Attrib-
utes Every Act Of Violence to
!. Teuton Instigation.
PART OF BIG SPY SYSTEM

| "Every act Of violence and every bit
of bloodshed in Russia has been in
stigated by the Germans.
Gwen the bolsheviki, extremists and
lrevolutionists that they are, have the
/ inherent Russian honesty and peaceable-
ness, if left to their own devices.
! "There is one field where democracy
shines, even in Germany-that is, in
spy systems. Kings and queens and
their spy systems. Kings and queens and
are carried on the Prussian pay rolls"
| These are the statements of DR.. Ed
ward H. Egbert, who went to Russia
with the first American Red Cross unit
sent there in 1914, and later returned
to work with the Russian Red Cross.
Previously he practiced medicine in
Washington for ten years.
| DR.. Egbert now is heading a move
ment to organize a permanent society
for relief and educational work among
the Russian people. Complete outlines
OF his plan will be announced at a
mass meeting to be held in Washing
ton shortly.
| Great National Asset.
Like Maj Stanley Washburn and
other Americans who have knowledge
| of conditions in Russia, he believes
that ''in Russia today lies one of Amer
tfca's greatest national assets" He
said his reasons for this belief are
threefold:
First. If Russia can be got back
into this war it will mean the saving
| of thousands of lives and perhaps bill
lions of dollars" he stated.
Second. the reaction upon Russia
herself after she had participated in a
victorious war, would furnish his
toric background for the new Russian
democracy, which would mold her peo-
| pie into national unit for all time.
Third. Russia. with its great man.
power and untold natural resources,
allied with France, England and the
United States, would settle the question
of future wars. Russia and the United
States alone could enforce peace in
years to come"
Russia can fight again. DR.. Egbert
holds. and he predicts that she will.
tary means, and she knows 1t, therefore
did not try.
Put Russia Out of War.
German intrigue. not German arms.
put Russia out of the war, menaced
italy. stirred revolution in Portu-
gal, is trying to foment another in
Spain. has made Sweden inimical to]
western nations and has been working
over time in the United States.
when will the allied nations realize
this? And the busiest arena for theI
Prussian spy and propaganda Office is
right in Germany and in Austria and
Hungary. 1t represents only about
1000 junkers: 1t keeps hundreds Of
thousands of Germans fighting for they
\ ~ -
the Russians from fighting, though
they don't know why, either.
This world network of intrigue is
regulated by an advisory board, com
posed Of about sixty men, Germany'sj
leading university psychologists and
world travellers, who have studied the
temperaments of every people on the
globe. They receive reports on the re-
suits their agents get. and II one
preachment does not work,athey tryl
another.
'An example is to be had in the
United States. The campaign to make
America love Germany wouldn't work;
that to make us hate England was not
much more successful: hence they
switched to an effort to stir up strife
between the United States and Japan
Trained for Their Work.
Germans who are now frasernizing
with the Russian troops, by permission
1 vi ACuihS. ILL., SS Sdtu dEG tTdlucQ
| for their work. Many of them are off,
ceSs. temporarily in privates' uniforms.
and they are instructed about what
| they are to say, and even in the ges-
lures they are to use, with the tradi-
| tiona1 Prussian efficiency"
\ Lenine and his colleagues prove
| themselves fanatics" he said. TN be-
lieving that by permitting the Germans
| to aid them in disorganizing Russia
1 these same soldiers will go back home
! ready to dfsorganize Germany and help
| bring about the hazy day of interna-
| tfonalism the bolsheviki dream about"
The bolshevikf--so named from the
/ Russian word .'bolshoi," meaning
| great or 'most"-because they want
the most in the way of radical pro-
| gram, DR.. Egbert explained. became a
political entity in the "fiivver' revoIu-
| ton of 1905.
THE educated element among the
bolsheviki Is made up of the out-and-
out German agents. the educated paci-
fists, the peace-at-any-price idealists.
and what is a saving element, extreme
socialists who still know that some
jsort of law, order and property rights
must be involved in stable govern
ment. and it is this element that is now
deserting.
Found in Our Country.
These gradations are to be found in
Tour own country. The German agents