The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-20

Ia month OF vain effort. TO return TO
Russia
I During the period OF acute irrita-
( ton over tho Ukraine situation he-
tween tho Bolshevik chiefs and Ger
many, il appears that the soviet secret
service was Shadowing Erich. the
/ German major who had been ordered
to kIef The German stan promptly
commanded Trotzky 10 take urgent
4 measures TO remove the surveillance
: Of the 3bove~nAmed official
Another star order states
Ivy instructions Of tho rnpreSen-
/ tativcs Of our STAFF have the honor
to ask YOU 10 Immediately recall from
the lrkrsinia front the agttators,
itvyanSkl. WuN Drabkin and i4ttsker-
Their activity has been recognized a.
/ dangerous by The German general
stan
Again or February g. 1915 when
! Germany was using an iron hand OF
discipline. the STAFF wrote "once more
TO insist that Won recall from Estinnd.
/ Iitsa and Courland all agitatnrs of
tho central executive committee of
the soviet Of work men and soldiers
deputies"
The beginning and abrupt end Of
the short lived rebellion against Fer
lin mastery is shown by the following
extract from terse German note
dated February u. tHlS.
Rebellion Squclched
The intelligence department has
received detailed Information that the
ssltators. 81 he Petroerad soviet Of
workneH and soldiers deputies have
completely changed the character of
the FStiand soc3aNstS activity which
finally led 30 tho local German Iand-
lords being declared out}a~ed By
order # the GNrruan staff ask vou 10
take immediate steps for the restoring
Of the rights OK the above mentioned
landlords and the recalling II the
aGItators "a
ON january g. 1915. directions are
given for the strict surveillance" 81
French Polish ana Don officers. who
j; Was charged were maintaining
secret communications through RVS
sian officials who went about the
country disguised az food redd}ets
4 document dated December 4
1917. gives a list a persons Of Rus
sian origin who had treaeherou*ly
entered thr paid service Of the Ger
man tntel,Eence department A sec
or5 3'st Of Russo-Gerrnan spies is
given ,r later note emaratiue from
the office OF the Bolshevik counter
espionage"
assassination Compact.
An assassination compact between
The Rulsheviks and a group of noto-
r3ous anarc hists is shown by the nho-
toRraph Of a note of the counter
espionage ' The latter states that The
auar, SITS who are named held a
confe.- 80 with the chiefs Of staff OF
The ~ grad district. and adds
Af,er Comrade Shalko trensrn tilted
10 the anarchists The offer of Com
rade Antonoh and Comrade Bersin TO
recruit agents for the destruction OF
several counter reVoIut ionisis the
latter expressed their Willingness and
Immediately began the recruiting
This brief memorandum sheds an
interesting light upon the origin OF
some Of the atrocious acts committed
during the reign Of murder and
plumber which still grips Petrograd.
Proof that Germany as early as the
FIRST and second years of the war, bv
liberal use of It's corruption fund. had
recruited Finnish regiments and sent
them 10 Germany is supplied by the
final document in todays series The
work was done with German funds in
Finland hv a lawyer named Jonas
kastrcn. The note states. among
other things:
For facilitating the work of re-
cruiting, he presented himself as a
socialist aXimaA list, ard promised
support TO the workers red guards
kastrcn furnished to Prussia German
money for the propaganda of :. Boil
shcNism in Russia
incidentally 1t appears that kas-
tren later douhle-erossed his Teutonit
employers and vas discovered In
secret league with the Finnish Whit
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