Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-08
BY CAPTAIN HORST Won DER eoLrz,

German agents had for long time
been fomenting revolution in Russia I
know this to be SO because more than
once went to Petrograd on secret mis-
sions for the kaiser. The German hope
was that food riots and the need and
suffering of the masses would lead to
revolution which would seat the Ro-
manoffs more securely on the throne
and enable Russia to sign a separate
peace with the central powers under
the plea that civil war made it i'm
possible for the government to keep its
armies in the field.
My work in Russia and my asso-
Citations with other secret agents after
the war in Europe began, showed me
Rasputin was an exponent of this plan
and that he was an enemy of the
United States because he was strong
friend of Germany and he wanted to
see Russia and Japan partition China
and dominate the Pacific.
In furthering this combination, Ras-
putin and Wilhelmstrasse agents suot-
ly pointed out to the mikado's govern
ment that in this way the influences of
the British navy in the Orient could be
limited. Rasputin also had his eyes on
Alaska as 1 have already pointed out.
His power was great.
A few months ago an important ma
gazine with headquarters in New York
City secretly arranged to publish a
series of stories by Illodor, the Mad
Monk of Russia" close friend Of Ras-
putin and former confessor of the
czar. Rasputin had quarrelled with
1liodor, whose real name is Michael
Trufanof. and the latter had fled to
Sweden where he married Nadezda
Porfiliera, once lady in waiting to the
rzarina-
Last March, this lady went to Rus
sia to obtain from the empress a par
don for her husband. Iliodor. The Rus
sian court offered Iliodor a pension if
he would return, but the monk was sus-
picious and preferred to keep out of
Russia. He went to New York.
Now there was in New York at that
time a Lithuanian whom / know very
well and who was in the employ Of the
British secret service. He was using
the name of wilkins and, for the cur
lous, he had a card which showed he
was real estate agent. This man,
learning that the magazine in question
was going to publish Iliodor's stor-
les, went to see the monk, thinking that
his wife, Nadezda Porfiiera might have
picked up some valuable information
while in Russia at the court
RUSSIA SEEKING PEACE.
What he learned exceeded his wild
est expectations. At that time, Great
Britain was spending great sums of
money In efforts to prove that Russia
was negotiating a separate peace with
Germany. but they had been unable to
prove II.
The Lithuanian, an old friend If hi
doors gained the confidence Of, the
monk and of Nadezda Poriliera and
obtained the proof that Russia and
Germany were about to patch up a
peace. Then the secret service man
obtained copies of the stories and turn
ed them over to the British embassy,
which in turn forwarded copies to the
Russian embassy. Iiodor had already
been paid $4,000. The Russian en-
bassy was anxious to have the stories
suppressed because their publication
would have meant the destruction of
the prestige of the Russian court and
would have also hampered the sale of
ItuSSldu JULIUS III Atu6FlCd- Inc BrlIlSn
embassy wanted them suppressed be-
cause the time for their publication was
not ripe, and they wanted to give them
an Importance which was not actually
theirs.
Then the Lithuanian in the British
service very confidentially told all the
proceedings to the editor of a certain
pamphlet which is rabidly pro- German
and the whole story was published of
how Great Britain and Wall Street had
suppressed the truth as told in Iiodor'5
articles which was Just what the Brit
ish wanted, for the articles attained
thereby an importance by no means
their due.
This story was circulated through
out Europe by consent of the obliging
British censor. The Russian court was
in a frenzy. Nobody knew how much
the British had learned.
RUSSIAN COURT IN TURMOIL.
The next move on the part of our
Lithuanian was to visit a certain Mr..
Ychas, deputy Of the duma and secre-
tary Of Protopopoff, who had just arr