The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-21
LIBERTY is LOST!
g. s. Ambassador Directs Stir
ring Appeal to Russia.
Urges To Forget Political Lines
and Fight Huns.
TROTzKY SOUNDS WAR CRY!
Wild Applause Greets His Plea
To Fight Germany.
Says 100000 Germans in ST.
IBERIA Are Armed and. Ready.

Moscow. March 81 TUESDAY,
March 19l.-Russia will eventually
become a German province and Rus
slams will lose their liberty If they sub
init to the peace forced by the central
powers. David r. Francis, the ambas-
sador, declared in a statement to the
Russian people issued from the Amer
lean embassy at Vologda.
.-~ The ambassador pledged American
help to any government in Russia that
would resist the German penetration.
He urged them to forget their politi-
cal differences and said that he would
not leave Russia until compelled by
force. The ambassadors statement
said:
THE friendship between Russia and
the United States, which has existed
for a century or more, should be aug
mented rather than impaired by Rus
aia becoming a republic and Amerl-
cans are sincerely DESTROYS that Rus
SLAMS be permitted to continue free
and independent and not become sub
jects of Germany.
Will Be Subjects of Kaiser.
II have not seen an authentic copy
of the peace treaty but l am sufIi-
GENTLY acquainted with its provisions
to know that if the Russian people
should submit to it Russia not only
would be robbed of vast areas of its
territory but her people eventually
would become subjects of Germany.
Russia eventually will become virtual
ly a German province and her peo-
pie would lose the liberties for which
their ancestors struggled for genera
tons.
MY government still considers
America an ally of the Russian people
who surely will not reject the proffer-
ed assistance we would be prompt to
render to any government in Russia
that will offer sincere and organized
resistance to the German invasion.
IF the Russian people will be brave
and patriotic, will lay aside temper
arily their political difference and be
resolute. firm and united they will be
able to drive the enemy from the bor-
ders and procure, therefore, at the end
of 1918 an enduring peace for them
selves and the world
Wild Applause in Soviet.
BY JOSEPH SEAPLEN.
Petrograd. March 20. night-War
Minister Trotzky, addressing the Mos
COW soviet today, received the widest
applause when he pleaded for imme-
date creation of large Russian army.
According to foreign reports, ZOO
900 Austro-German prisoners are arm
ed and ready to seize the trans-Siber-
ian region" Trotzky said.
The Japanese are spreading this re-
port turnout the world. in order to
excuse their occupation of Siberia.
nave AlO QOuOI Dul that the
French bOurse would sell Russia, if
ii were offered Alsace-Lorraine in re-
turn.
IF the western proletariat does not
support us, we will perish.
I'VE have no illusions regarding the
attitude of TIE European bourgeoisie
We need an army for war against the
whole of capitalist, imperialist Eu-
rope.
Our army was destroyed in three
Ill
effects of a war with armies of other
industrially developed countries.
'.'- We. must begin with new army
of $50, 900 to create a new, collective
military discipline under the command
of experts, SO when the European
proletariat arises, we will be able tc
say:
-" We are herer"