The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1918-06-07
The
New Power in
the Ukraine
IF
By GIDEON HOE
OF The Viqiionfes

The suspicion that the newly elected
Republic of the Ukraine is merely a
mask for actual German control and
exploitation Of that country is borne
out by many facts coming to light. 1t
Is only what one might expect. judging
by our knowledge of German methods
rs revealed in the last few years
methods which. as we now realize,
have been religiously followed by gen
erations of Germans in their set pur-
pose of pilIaging the world.
Among the most powerful and in
cesSantly active organizations for car
rXing out these schemes Of the robber
Teutons have BEEN the German steam
ship companies with their agencies all
over the world. Their malign intrfgues
have been INSCRIPTIONS. tireless and
backed by unlimited means placed at
their disposal by Berlin That all Eu
ropean nations have known of these
plots. or at least have suffered from
them. is now beyond question. That
we in America have been the foolish
dupes of these cunning thieves, maGy
people are still too simple 10 credit
\ forceful presentation of the case
against the German steamship com
panies. and the whole German system
of espionage. propaganda and deliber-
ate intrigue is made by Theodore
Kahn of Lemberg. Mr.. Kahn shows
that the German steamship organiza-
tion has been from its very beginning
part of the German military machine.
ut has shaped itself" he says. Tin
the different countries and conspired
slowly and for some decades in silence
and secrecy. employing for its purpose
in every country the most monumental
intriguers of IL particularly heinous
type. The offices of the German steam
ship companies were centers of the
German espionage system. The agents
of the German lines We're
drilled and directed from military
establishment controlled by an ire
sponsible government.
Their meshes of imperial prepa-
ganda and subsidies spread to all coun-
tries. Many Of the dupes of their ac-
tivities regarded the news set aaoat
by thenr as gospel truth. The agencies
of these companies We're an important
part of the German spy system whose
activities We're classified under various
heads military, naval. diplomatic
commercial and agents provacateurs
In the offices of Balm and Heineeken
nearly every plot for German expan-
sion has been Matched.
MANY of the different patriotic ma
tional religious and commercial socie-
ties, naval leagues. leagues of Truth.
bowling clubs. singing societies. etc.,
throughout Galicia. BukoWina and Eu-
ropean Russia. have been secret of
fees of the German Steamship com
panies where propaganda was carried
on under the protection of national
law with the intention to influence law
makers and rulers.
AN important factor in the league
of these societies We're the many Aus
trian army officers who have been sta
toned in the border towns of Galica
and the Rukowina. The greater part
of Austrian army officers are burdened
with heavy debts Many of the gar
risons situated on tha.borders of Aus
tria and Russia have been "Strafgar-
nisenen" punishment garriSens)
where officers whose pay has been CON
fiseated have been sent. Therefore it
is not surprising that they have been
easily influenced by the sound. of gold.
They have secretly acted as agents for
the German steamship companies.
These army officers us we'll as officials
of the Austrian government, pro-
fessors, school teachers, etc. worked
and intrigued together wherever they
could"
The activities of these devOtees and
servants of kaiserism have been many
and varied. but always with the one
end in view
ut was the task of these votarieS to
prepare calmly and methodically the
population for any plan Matched in the
war ministry, to influence and slacken
any vigilance directed against German
interests. To safeguard German monepo-
lies in foreign countries. to sign 'Au-
thoritative Opinions when needed.
Their activities included-to start and
maintain the necessary crusade when
ever required by their paymasters, to
arouse enthusiasm for war in one coun-
try, to preach peace and good faith in
another, to weave new intrigueS, to
place Interpolation in foreign parlia-
ments. to see to publication of memo
randums, to address applications and
petitions to the authorities. to invent
slanderous and malicious tales, to cir
culate and hold discussions in public.
TO foster strikes, to infiame through
publications and newspapers the public
mind. And through this system they
bamboozled the public In direction
desired. placing perpetual screen be-
fore the people and reality"
1t is interesting to note in connection
with Germany's wall for freedom Of
the seas. that since German confedera-
tion no foreign vessels have been adj
mitted 10 German ports except under
vexatious restrictions. and that Ger
man steamship companies have always
prevented the working of other lines In
continental Europe. so far as they
could. Third-class passengers, for in
stance, were not allowed TO pass
through Germany If they wished to sail
by non-German lines.
One of the favor.te plans of German
izing European countries is simply to
make life unbe;rable for non German