The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-28
leutons Hope for Arrange
ment Which Will Make Mus
covites Allies of Their Cause
kALEDINE, THE COSSACK,
STANDS IN THEIR WAY
AT Head of Well-Disciplined
Army, In Command of Food
and Gold, He Is Expected to
Bafle Bolsheviki Plotters

London. Nov. 27,-Nicolai TAnine
mob-made premier OF Russtt has
thrown open the gates of Petrosrad
To delegation Of German staff Of
hcers' They are tonight sitting AT a
common council table with htr. ,,,an-
ping out the destinies of the Musco-
Flte realm. The dispatch that brought
this news says the German officers are
acting In an advisory capacjtv.' Ia
Lenine ~
suppose they are sh@t. or arrested
or spirited away TO Siberia.
IN that case explained one who 10
UeIi posted on Teuion allnS. GERMANY
al last supplied with a convenient ex
GasS' would tsaT with her eastern
iorces through the broken ranks of
Inc starving Russian armies, and, on
the pretext OF revenge for A'tresehar,'i
oveI-run halt Of Russia and hold II a.
ransom. Al present there seems but
one man who can avert such n die
astsr, snd who also may wreck what.
eY@T plans -fseufrTs ard his Geruar
otacer guests are Matching: Kaiedins
idol of the Cossacks
AT the head or q devoted. we'll fail
and well-disciplined army. he is re.
ported to have bottled IN R11gxia.s re
sources in food. provisions and gold
he " an arch foe Of anarchv. BoIsha-
v'kisFn and Teninisn Upon him thsai-
lied world Ia tonight ptsa ntrx sta f,npe@
Tor the rescue Of Russia out Of the
feuton web now being spun at Petro-
grad,
The reports Of the arrival Of Ger
man ofncers in the capital is credited
N nF4Fs
u would only he part OF the Teutop
campaign designed not only 10 make
peace with Russia but to capture her
as an ally. chiefly economic The
campaign has eeeig feyerishIv carried
on ever since KerenSky was over
thrown. It had been surreptitously
prepared long beforehand II Ia now
going or in the open
With Russia as an economic aIIv.
the central powers hope 10 thwa1.t
the entente plans for commercial
boycott after the war, To make her
an ally. Germany is holding out as
the main inducements "a Russia the
promise TO rebuilS the crippled realm
by Prussian orga nization methods
To discuss the terms. the German
officers are believed TO he now in
Petrogrsd Included among them will
mediate rebuilding of Russia trans
portation system by ~ German engt-
neers. reconstruction Of Russias in
dustries by German money and men,
and subsequent economic and COM
merciai pacts.
MtlitsriIy the Teutons aim to derive
from peace with Russia the chief sd-
vantage OF releasing the present Ger
man and Austrian forces IN the east
conservatively estimated at i6eU 0~a
Economically their main ambition is TO
reconstruct Russia SO as TO enable her
TO produce raw materials and food
for Germany and Austria Their most
slly in these designs are hum
ger and lack of fuel in Russia.
But whatever agreements they may
arrive at with the Lenine- Trotzky
hund are expected to b. Initiated as
soon as General Kaledine has rallied
behind him the sane and moderate
forces that are fast coming back TO
life under the ansrchistic regime of
the Boleheviki All of southeastern
Russia, including the bulk OF the grain
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