Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-19
BERLIN PLOT TO
TRICK RUSSIAN
TOOLS EXPOSED
Secret Documents Show the
Means Used to Prevent
Bolshevik Growth

Washington, Sept. 1s.--German
trickery in breaking the Ukraine
away from the bought -paid-for
'Bolshevik government, plots against
loyal Russian soldiers and their
leaders to insure complete German
sway after the false peace confer
ence at Brest-Litovsk. and further
evidence of the precautions of the
Teutons against Bolshevik preach
ing in their own ranks are shown
in the instalment of secret docu-
ments from Russia made public by
the. United States Government yes
terday.
Communications written in Janu-
airy disclose that the Bolsheviki were
fully informed of what the Germans
were doing in the Ukraine. and knew
that peace treaties with the Ukraine
and Rumania were coming. They
also learned quickly enough that
Germany was disposing of their
hopes to see their revolutionary
propaganda take root on German
soil
Notes from the German intelli-
gence service to Trotzky, the Com
missar of Foreign Affairs. show first
that a Turk with a Russian pass
port was sent to Petrograd to keep
watch over the Russian commander
in-chief. and that n month after
ward. late in February, removal of
the commander-in-chi General
| Bonch Bruevick, was demanded.
, Bruevick, whose continuance in the
position was particularly no longer
desirable" to the Germans, was
turned out and General Parski.
named by the German intelligence
carvfNn onnAinfad fn nd
the Petrograd district.
Another note from the intelligence
service complains that 'the agents
sent to kill Generals Kaledin, Bo-
galvsky and Alexieff were coward
ly, nom n-enterprising people" This
same document shows that as long
ago as December, 1917. former Ger
man prisoners of war were being
dressed in Russian uniforms to fight
loyal Russian soldiers.
The significance of the documents
is discussed in notes by Edgar Sis
son, who brought the documents out
of Russia for the Committee on Pub
lie Information.
Tools Ambition Punished
Germany made its Russian peace
with it's own puppet government, the
mis-named Council of Peoples Com
missars, the president of which Is
Vladimir Ulianov (Lenine), the For
eign Minister Of which was Leon
Trotzky and the ambassador of
which to Germany is A. Joffe. Ger
many made this peace harder upon
the Russian people as punishment
for the ambition of its tools in seek
ing to become too powerful and in
hoping for a little while not only
that Russia would be delivered to
them, but that they could double
cross their masters by turning a
simulated German revolution into
real one.
But their craftiness was toy in
the hands of rough German force.
Germany was actually double-cross-
ing them by negotiating with the
Ukrainian Rada at the moment they
dreamed they were tricking Ger
many
Leaders Not Discarded
Germany, however, did not discard
the Bolshevik leaders, recognizing
their further use in the German
world campaign for internal disor-
ganization in the nations with which
it wars, but confined them to the
limited inland province which Great
Russia proper has now become.
Lenine, according to statements
made public as soon as Trotzky's
spectacular device of mo peace-no
war" failed. always was for peace on
any German terms. He dominated
the situation thereafter and conced-
ed everything that Germany asked.
Nor did TrotZky cease to continue to
obey the German orders delivered to
him, both by General Hoffman. at
Brest-Litovsk, and at Petrograd di-
rectly by the Russian division of the
German General Staff, which was
seated in Petrograd itself from No
vember, and which was still there in
full operation when 1 left. Monday,
March 4, the day that Petrograd re-
ceived notification that peace had
been signed at Brest-litovsk by the
Russian and German delegations.
Trotzky Denobilzed Army
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