The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-10
Proletariat Turning Against
Lenine and TrOtzky.
Chaos Reigns in Business and
Industries.
GERMANS ARE TAING A HAND
Plotting With Counter Revolu-
tionists Against Government.
Crisis Is at Hand, According TO
Noted Correspondent.
BY JOSEPH H. sHAPLEN.


Stockholm. June 10.-The counter
revolutionary movement in Russia IL
growing. The Bolsheviki are living
their last days.
Unless the present regime Is over
thrown by the combined efforts OF 9th.
er revolutionary democrauc parues.
| there will be counter revoiution OF
the monarchial supports in Moscow and
Petrograd, similar to that whicn tri-
umphed in Ukraine.
| Skoropadsky, aided by the bour-
geoisie and cadets, is ruling Ukraine
/ and has virtually restored the oio
| egime. Mannerheim in Finland ana
Krassnoff in the Don regions have trf-
umphed in like manner. In a similar
way. the provinces of the Baltic region
have been occupied. while the prov
inces of Pskoff and Minsk are under
the banner of Austro-German imper-
ialiem.
Russia is threatened by foreign im-
perialists on the north, west ana
south. The Turks are again advancing
in the Caucasus. aiming to unite at
| Tiflis with the Germans. who are ad-
| vancing from the north.
With masked cunning. by friendly
bach, Germany is gradually approach
ing the heart of Russia. in order TO
pierce it at the desirable moment.
| Joseph Snaplen, VINO mas pccH al
| Russia seven months and who OBJ
tanned the first authentic decision OF
the aims and plans of the Bolsheviki.
thru an exclusive interview with
| Trotsky, has succeeded in penetrating
the armies of the warning factions and
reaching Stockholm. From this neu-
trail city he cabled today the follow
ing comprehensive dispatch on pres
ent conditions in Russia. All direct
dispatches from that country have
! been subjected to delays of many days
and even weeks for some time pdst
Germans Join Counter Revolutionists.
An alliance of German and Russian
counter revolutionaries. acting from
two fronts-the inner and outer-are
preparing for a final and complete
counter revolution.
Last week, in Moscow, plot was
discovered in which hundreds of reac-
tionaires aimed to kill the republic and
neous uprisings in Moscow. Petrograd
and other centers, in cooperation
with German bayonets
The German command, Of course, Is
taking no official part in these plots.
but is splendidly informed of the stu
alton and is ready to appear as the
protector. of the new reactionary re-
gime at the proper moment.
1t is still impossible to foretcll i'm
mediate developments but 1t is certain
the Drle1 respite Is nearing itS eno'
however much the Bolsheviki seek TO
lengthen it. The Bolsheviki them
selves admit I'VE are already a corpse,
but there is no one to bury u.s."
Proletariat DESERVING Bolshevil<i.
| The Bolshevik regime, due to meth
ods of violence similar to the old
czarism in an effort to preserve itself.
is universally hated. The proletariat
!, are leaving the Bolshevik en- masse.
All factory workers in Petrograd
have organized. Their conference de-
manded a reunited, democratic front.
abrogation of the Brest-Litovsk treaty
and formation of Nationalist. Social
list Russia, in order to restore industry,
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