The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-11-07
by FREDERICK ~. ;<ERBY.
N. e. A. Staff Correspondent.


New York.-If the kaiser financed
the Russian revolutions. then the Boil.
sheviki are now repaying the debt
with compound interest
This is what the political refugees
from Russia and the central empires
temporarily colonized on the lower
east side of New York are saying to.
day.
Having silently, though confidently
| waited for months for the rising Of
| the people Of the Teutonic powers
against their military oppressors. all
| the pent up feelings have now been
| loosed and they are celebrating the
downfall of the Hapsburgs and the
| IIohenZollerns.
have spent the day talking with
men who have kept in touch with the
underground revolutionary govern
ments that have been developing in
Vienna and Budapest. | found them
in the offices of "Novy Mir" Flora
and the dingy back rooms where other
revolutionary socialist weekly and
monthly foreign language papers are
produced. I have been in the Hun
garian, Austrian and Slavic cafes on
Second avenue, where the latest revo
luton is being openly discussed.
Last spring when reports Of the
Vienna strikes came over the cables.
Zader Szabades. editor of Flora the
Hungarian socialist daily newspaper,
told me that the revolution was
matter Of few months at the most;
that it would probably start in Buda
pest, and that the propaganda sent in
to Austria-H Hungary underground by
the Boshevik would touch the match
to the powder. What he said then
has come true. Now, through the east
side. l find the feeling is overwhelm-
ing that the revolutionary govern
ment in the central empires will cul-
inmate in Bolshevism.
A steady stream of propaganda has
| been poured into Germany and Aus
tria from the Bolsneviki in Russia.
The German troops facing the Rus
slams were so infected with Bolshevixi
propaganda that>they had to be with
drawn, sent to the western front and
replaced by new divisions before the.
treacherous invasion of the Baltic
states and the capture. of Riga could
be attempted by Germany y
Campaign Of Propaganda.
Since Brest-Litovsk and the rape
Of the border Russian states, the Rus
sian Bolsheviki have carried on an
uncaasing campaign of propaganda,
| both in these occupied territories and
with the tfa-Hungary, Germany
and the subject Czech and Slav and
the great states Of Austria. The Len
ine-Trotzky regime has always pros
| fessed to believe that they could
bring about a proletarian revolution
with the central empires. r.
This propaganda-if reports that
have reached this side can be be-
| lieved-has infected tremendous
portion of the German and Austrian
soldiers and workingmen -.
With the release of Liebknecht, the
independent socialists have gathered
strength and the underground swell
of Eolshevism has been growing more
menacing Eevolutionists here point
out that the conditions are ripe. Ger
many and Austria together have lost
5000, 600 men killed and millions more
wounded and prisoners. The people
are near starvation. Vienna is with
out food To the east Russia is in
worse condition The German and
/ Austrian soldiers will come home
/ beaten and desperate. n
Hun Finances Wrecked.
4 Germany's financial system has
been wrecked by the Junkers-it .is~on
a paper basis-and Austria is worse
off. German paper currency, is as
valuable as Russian paper roubles.
The. formation of workmen's and sol
dier's councils is almost a certainty.
Conditions are ripe for revolution Of
the most extreme type.
My informants say that the abdica-
ton of the two kaisers will be fol
!, lowed by the setting up of republics
corresponding to the Mtsoukoff re.