Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-29
THE PLOT FOR A SHAMEFUL
 PEACE.


 Germany made it's Russian peace with its own puppet government, the misnamed council of Peoples Commis sars, the president of which is Vladi- mir Uulianov (Lenin), the foreign minister of which Leon Trotsky, and the ambassador of which to Germany is A. Joffe. Germany made this peace harder upon the Russian people as a punishment to the ambition of its tools Tn seeking to become too powerful and in hoping for a little while not only that Russia would be delivered over to them, but that they could double cross their masters by turning a sim- ulated German revolution into real one.
 But their craftiness was a toy in the hands of rough German force. Ger many was actually dOuble-crossing them by negotiating with the Ukrain- ian Rada at the moment they dreamed they were tricking Germany.
 Germany, however, did not discard the Bolshevik leaders, recognizing their further use in the German world campaign for. internal Reorganization in the nations with which it wars, but confined them to the limited inland province which Great Russia proper has now become.
 Lenin, according to statements made public as soon as Trotsky's spec tacular devise of No peace-No war failed, always was for peace on any German terms He dominated the sit uation thereafter and conceded every thing that Germany asked. Nor did Trotsky cease to continue to obey the German orders delivered to him both by General Hoffman, at Brest-Litovsk and at Petrograd, directly by the Rus sian division of the German general staff, which was seated in Petrograd itself from November, and which was still there in full operation when left, Monday, March 4, the day that Petro- grad received notification that peace had been signed at Brest-Litoysk by the Russian and German delegations.
 Trotsky therefore rests rightly un- der the accusation of having staged his theatrical scene as a climax to the Russian disorganizatiOn desired by Germany. The actual order he gave was for the immediate demobilization of the Russian army, leaving the Ger man army unOppOsed.
 The actual effect of the work of the Bolshevik leaders, moreover, was to enable Germany to combine its former army of the Russian front with its western army for the launching of it's March offensive in France. Such has been the fruition of Russia's German directed BOlshevikism.
 The following documents tell the story of the betrayal of Russia to a shameful and ruinOus peace:
 DOCUMENT NO. 30.
 (Gr. (Great) General Staff Central Alb
 theilung. section MIR, No. 4Os, Feb.
 26, 191s.)
 Secret.
 To the chairman of the Cuncil of Peoples Commissars: The depart ment of the staff has the honor to re- quest data of the attitude of the de- tachment being sent to Pskoff and to guard against all possible results if in these detachments any will carry on patriotic propaganda and asitations against the German army-Head of the Russian Division German General Staff. O. Rausch; Adiutant, U. Wolff.
 NOTE-The chairman of the Coun- cil of Peoples Commissars is Lenin. Al the tou of this letter is the writ ten comment Urgent. Chairman of the Council of Peoples COmmissars asks Vo'adarsky to communicate this 10 tho agitation department. (Signed) Secretary Skripnik" SKripnik is the first secretary of the Government, per sonallv reporting to Lenin. A secono notation in margin is Central Exec utive Committee No. S23 to report. (Signed) N. G." The initials core spond with those of N. Gorbunov, chief secretary of the Council of Peoples Commissars The detachments being sent to Pskoff at this time were com posed of Red Guards and of the re- cruits of the new Red Army, Pskoff