The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-09-20
BETRAYAL OF RUSSIA BY.
THE MINISTER OF WAR
ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS Ex-
PLAIN REvERsEs TO THE
RUSSIAN ARMY.
New, York Times)

true proportions, it may be that the
ma of General Soukhomlinoff will
xhe written above that Of Hindenburg
r. half that, has been brought out on
bic trial Is proved, 1t is due to this
nan that the war Is still going on
put for him, it Is possible that Am
erica might never have entered the
war. that before this time the allies
might have been debating peace to
a defeated Germany.
I'm 1916 the Russians were sweeping
through Austria Hungary unchecked,
when suddenly they found themselves
destitute of ammunition, opposing the
enemy with their bare hands, and
we're driven back far into Russia.
Each advance. Of the Russians, and
there were several, was suddenly
halted and hurled back at the moment
Of apparent victory, though the great
repulse Of the Grand Duke Nicholas
army in 1915 was the most colossal
disaster of all. These defeats were
universally believed to be the result
of treachery at Petrograd, not Of SUI
perior German prowess In the field.
Send Great Armies to Disaster.
It is now charged that the archi-
tect of these defeats was one man,
Soukhomlinoff, the czar's minister of
war. The indictment on which he is
being tried-the first man ever put OH
trial before jury for high treason in
Russia--alleges that he organized
them; that he sent the armies to dis
aster which he contrived by with
holding ammunition at the critical
moment; that meanwhile he COM
municated to German agents the
plans Of campaign and other military
secrets, including not only the Russian
plans, but everything he learned in
his official capacity about those of the
allies. The Car trusted him blindly
and he further served Germany by
keeping from the monarch all those
who sought to warn him of Russia's
danger. Soughomlinoff is charged
with doing this, not out of sympathy
with Germany, but for money, which.
was paid him by the German agents
who received his communications, and,
a poor man before the war, he is now
said to be rich.
Made a Russian Slaughter House.
The former chief of the general
staff General Yanushevich Mortified
the court with his description of the
terrible position of Nicholas army
when, far in the interior Of Austria
Hungary, it suddenly found itself
without ammunition, and of the fran
tic appeals sent to Soukhomlinoff to
send some. He told of the devoted
soldiers perishing in masses as they
stodd weaponless before the readily ar
tillery OF the Germans; he told of how
the Germans, who had full informa-
ton of their condition, would delib-
erately bring their guns within close
range and pour death at their leisure
into the helpless mass before them.
General Ivanoff, formerly Russian
commander in Galicia and Volhynia
testified that Soukhomlinoff used hi
wife as his go-between to the enem!
agents, who were German spy nam
ed Myasoyedoff and an Austrian spy
named Altschiller, Warsaw being thu
place of meeting Mr.. Guckhoff, thu
president of the third duma, testified
to the minister's blocking Of every at
tempt to furnish the army with mum
itions and testified that when, in 1914
he visited the fortress Of Ossowetz
he found that the artillery could no
spare more than two shells for tn
daybreak and nightfall salutes" ant
that "the Germans were laughing a
us for our two shots a day."
Caused Americas Present Trouble.
Many other witnesses have give
equally astounding testimony. IN
helpless condition Of the soldiers
early in the war, caused the creatio
Of councils Of public spirited citizen
who undertook to provide for the ma
tons defense. General Velitchk(
deputy director of engineers, testif1e
that Soukhomlinoff suppressed thes
councils, and declared that the minis
ter not the Czar-who saw every
thing through Soukhomlinoff's spec
tacles," he said--was responsible fe
the Russian defeats. Mr.. Guchko
said that Soukhomlinoff was "alon
responsible" for his country's disas
ter.
II Russia had been able to carry
success either Nicholas attack
1915 or Brusiloff's in 1916, the effe
on the western front would have bee
tremendous, and it Is not hazardir
much to say that decision could hay
been reached before the date whe
America entered the war; If Soul
homlinoff is proved guilty, doubtle
history will say that one sordi
money mad traitor who had not eve
Benedict Arnold's excuse Of unkir
treatment by his superiors was
more potent force on every front
the great war then Hindenburg, Mac
ensen, Falkenhayn, Crown Prin
Frederick William, Admiral Won II
pitt, or any German or Austrian cor
mander whomsoever.