Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-20

When the bolsheviki were slows
about opening the way for complete
sway for their masters in Finland,
the German intelligence service had
the honor" to remind them that the
withdrawal and disarming of the
Russian red guard in Finland must
be commenced Immediately. Fur
thermore, the Russian agents were
directed to send to Finland trusty
agent to deal with Yarvo Haapa-
lainen, chief of the Finnish white
guard, who was disposed to be loyal
to his country. This, Edgar Sisson,
who procured re documents, ex-
plains in a note, accounts for the
sudden withdrawal of the red guard
last March, leaving Finland to her
fate. Some of the Russians resisted
disarmament, but they were beaten.
A series of curt orders from the
intelligence service to Trotzky calls
for the removal of all agitators from
the Ukraine, EStland, Litva and
Courland, and for the restoration of
rights and property to German land
lords who had been declared out
lawed in Estland
Other communications throw fur
Their light on assassination compacts
between the bolsheviki and anar-
chists, which have figured in earlier
chapters of the series. A list of an
archists, hired as agents for the de-
struction of counter revolutionists,"
includes several characters of inter
national notoriety.
The following documents show the
complete surrender of the boshevik
leaders to their German masters:
Document No. 43.
CIR. (GreaD General Staff, Central Abtheil-
ung, Section MR., No All. Feb. 2. 1918.
VERY SECRET.
To the Council of Peoples Com
missars: According to instructions
from the high command of the Ger
man army, | have the honor to re-
mind you that the Withdrawing and
disarming of the Russian Red Guard
from Finland must be commenced
Immediately. 1t is known to the
staff that the chief opponent of this
step is the head of the Finnish Red
Guard, Yarvo Haapalainen, who has
great influence on the Russian
tovarische (comrades). request you
to send for this struggle with Hap
alainen our agent, Walter Nevalainen
(Nevalaiselle), bearer of Finnish
passport 368l, and supply him with a
passport and pass.-Head of the
Department, O. Rausch; Adjutant,
L. Wolff.
Note,-Written at the top of the letter
and signed N. G., the initials of Lenn's
secretary, N. Gorbunov, Is the order
Send to the commssar OF foreign affairs
and execute" In the margin is written
Passport 211-No. $685." but unfortunate
ly the name under which the new pass
port was given is not mentioned. This or
der explains the withdrawal Of the Rus
sian Red Guard from Finland in early
March and the abandonment OF the Fin
nish Red Guard to its fate. The latter.
however took care of the dsarming both
OF Russian soldiers and sailors as they left
Finland for the Firms needed guns and
ammunition. The Russians sometimes
fought but were surrounded and dis
armed, In Helsingfors while ! was there
in March the Red Guard and the sailors
were fighting each other nightly with
rifles and machine guns. One Of two Fin
nish Red, Guard leaders almost surely Is
Nevalainen, but under the circumstances
l do not care to speculate.
The order to hold all foreign embassies
In Red Finland was given coincidently
with the appearance Of one Of them upon
the scene The excuse offered was that
foreigners were carrying information to
the White Guard. simultaneously influ-
ence was exerted In the White Guard to
increase difficulties in passage between
the lines 1t is reasonable to place the
obstacles to passage created on both sides
of the Finnish line to German effort for
German aid was being given the White
Guard openly at the moment 1t was in
triguing in the inner councils Of the Red
Guard. The American party cornered In
Finland escaped only by persistence and
good fortune The British embassy party
was passed through the day before the
closing order came. The French and
italian embassies were obliged after
month Of vain effort TO return TO Russia.
Have original letter and the surrendered