Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03
TYPICAL ILLUSTRATION
OF PERFIDY IN PLEDGES
Lenine Can Further Serve Kaiser's
Purpose in Show Of Resistance.
GERMANS TO APPEAsE GREED
Negotiations Started With Ruma-
mia, and Little Country,
Though Courageous, Likely
VIII GIVE In.
By OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

The arrogance of German mill
tarisnl. with its completely des-
potic principles, are today being
demonstrated to the world. What
the kaiser and his war lords would
do in case Germany should emerge
from the present struggle victori-
Gus is plainly demonstrated in
Russia. How little civilized peo-
pies can place credence in espou-
sal of the doctrine of fair play by
the Germans is graphically illus
t-ated- How completely. the ma
tons of the entire world might be
yoked down under the whims of a
people dominated by the doctrine
OF might is illustrated in the east.
How utterly worthless are the
pledges of the Teuton, how merci-
less he is in carrying out selfish
and domineering demands are
made plain. The reasons why the
entente nations and the United
States today are fighting never
could be more convincingly pic
tured than they are today in the
east.
IN the face of acceptance of their
drastic peace terms. which take an en-
pire from Rus
German ArmieS STA and enslave
Ignore Peace Plea. 600 600 neonie
and bind Russia to the payment of bill
lions of dollars. the German armies
operating in this arena of war
march on They refuse an armis-
tice- Not until the Russians attach
their signatures to & formal peace pact
at Brest-Litovsk, whittier the bolsheviki
and Germans have adjourned, will the
advance halt, according to the German
military leaders. The bolsheviki must
sign their pact within three days or
again the Germans will refuse to enter
into further parleys.
In the meantime the Germans will
have reached into the very heart of
Russia Despite protestations of good
will and desire to promote and per-
petuate the principles of self-definition.
the Teutons will make abject servants
of the once proud Slav.
EsverVWhara-
to volhynia, the Teutonic advance goes
on unchecked. The chief military EFFORT
Is directed toward Petrograd. the Teu-
tonic armies being within less than
signature is attached to any peace
document German armies may be in
Petrograd: may dominate the entire
coast of the Gulf of Finland; paralyze
the power of the Russian fleet. and
then as an eieventh-hour measure say
to the Russians: You refused to ac-
cept our first terms, you delayed in ac-
cepting our second, and now we will
The Germans are warning on the boil
ehsvih, but when the word boisheviki is
used 1t Is in the sense that the German
effort is directed against the misguided
Lenine and Trotziy have played COM
pletely into the hands Of the Germans
They declare that the war Of the revolu-
to bend down under Germanic power al
Bregt-Litovsk. Here again they have OBJ
portunity Of serving the kaiser well. For
instance. should the Russians reject by
Rrest-Litovsk. or should they sign them
and then pursue the guerilla brand OF
warfare which they promise to wage
sgsina the Teqtons, even during their
2 chsnce to say You have failed to abide
by Sour pledges" Again the German
milI1ery machine "a ths east would b