The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-26
Permit BOIsheviki in America
To Cable PetrOgrad Govt. !.
Message Decries Capitulation to
Kaiser Without b Fight.
WILSON BACK OF PROPAGANDA
TrOtzky's Followers in America
Outraged by His Action.
Predict Rough Shedding Ahead
for Germany in Russia.
BY ROBERT ]. BENDER.


Washington, Feb. 26.-The Ameri-
most to stir the Russians to defense
of their nation against the invading
Teuton.
Aided by radicals in this country,
the government is continuing its edu-
cational campaign in Russia.
President Wilson himself is behind
the new move. 3.
Warn Against Separate Peace.
To this end. the government is per-
mitting passage of hundreds of cables
from radicals in this nation to the
Bolsheviki leaders, containing a dis
tinct warning against separate peace
and a friendly outstretching of the
hand to encourage the struggling,
war-torn Russians. In effect, these
cables state:
Your friends in this country have
stood by you faithfully until now be-
cause we thought and believed you
were fighting to throw off the yoke of
autocracy. Now you yield to that very
autocracy and militarism, encourage
it by your action and discourage mill
lions of those who have supported
you. You must fight"
Helping Hand for SlayS.
The president has considered again
speaking out in the open to Russia
but it appears likely he will do moth
Gus reaction in Russia. 1t may all
ways be set down, however, that Pres
ident Wilson's purpose is to hold out
Americas hand to the Russian dem
ocracy so long as there is democracy
there to serve.
Contrary to the general belief the
so-caIled american Bolsheviki'' are
outraged at the action of Lenine and
Trotzky in yielding to the German
peace terms. Charges that Socialists
Il lr1r -afs
the Russian peace have brought FORTH
from Representative Meyer London,
Only Socialist in congress, a spirited
challenge. He states that Socialists in
America want the Russian people to
fight-and fight until they whip the
German machine.
Germany's Trouble Only Begun.
London, Feb. Designing of a
Russo German peace will not be the
final solution of the German problem
on her eastern frontier and the final
settlement will come when the peoples
of Courland, Esthonia, Livonia and
Poland take matters into their own
hands, according to NJ. Kameneff
one of the Bolsheviki delegates to the
Brest-Litovsk negotiations in an inter-
view in the Daily News
M Kameneff has arrived in London
after three weeks journey from
Petrograd. He is on his way to Paris
as Bolsheviki plenipotentiary to
France
With the handing over of the land
and factories to the peasants and
workers M. Kameneff said. they had
begun to realize, as they could not un-
der the old regime, that a German
invasion of Russia would injure their
vital interests. Consequently the con-
sciousness of the necessity of defend
ing the country was growing among
the Russians.
The Rada Shy ON Popularity.
NJ Kameneff said he was convinced
the Germans would be unable to i'm
port food from the Ukraine because
the people there would prevent the
rara from fulfilling the promise given
Germany.
The rada's invocation of German
aid had raised bitter hatred among
the Ukrainian workers and peasants
who recognize only the authority of
the workmen's and soldiers councils
That was the reason, he declared that
the rada. had to flee from the Uk-
raine to the protection of German
bayonets.
Gernian occupation of Petrograd, M
kameneff added, would not be enough
to restore the monarchy. Any attempt
at restoration would entail fighting in
every town and village, for the peas
ants anc workers were well aware that
a restoration would involve the loss
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