The sun., 1918-09-18
BERLIN PLOT TO
TRICK RUSSIAN
TOOLS EXPOSED
Secret Documents Show
Means Used to Prevent
BOlshevik Growth.
ASSASSINS INEFFICIENT
German Masters Complain of
/ Murderers' Cowardice and
Lack of Enterprise.
ASsAssINs INEFFICIENT

wAsH1NoroN, Sept. II. - German
tyickery in breaking the Ukraine away
from the bought and paid for Bolshevik
Government, plots against loyal Russian
soldiers and their leaders to insure COM
plete German sway after the false peace
conference at Brest-Litovsk. and further
evidence of the precautions Of the Teu-
tons against Bolshevik preaching IN
their own ranks. are shown In to-day's
instalment Of secret documents from
Russia made publicity the United States
Government.
Communications written in January
disclose that the Bolshevik leaders were
fully informed Of what the Germans were
doing in the Ukraine. and knew that
peace treaties with the Ukraine and
Rumania were coming. They also learned
quickly enough that Germany was dis
posing of their hopes to see their revolu-
tionary propaganda take root on German
soil.
Notes from the German intelligence
service to Trotxlky. the Commissar OF
Foreign Affairs. show FIRST that Turk
with a Russian passport was sent to
Petroerad to keep watch over the Rus
sian commander IN chief, and that .
month afterward. late in February, re-
moval Of the commander in chief, Gen.
Bench Bruevick, was demanded. Brue-
wick, whose continuance in the position
was particularly no longer desirable"
10 the Germans. was turned out and
Gen. Parsl<i, named by the German in
telligence service. was appointed to
command the Petrograd district.
Another note from the intelligence
service complains that "the agents sent
to kill Gems. Kaledin, Bogaevsky and
NJ IA n -
people" This same document shows
that as long ago as December, 1917.
former German prisoners of war were
Being dressed in Russian uniforms to
fight loyal Russian soldiers.
The significance Of the documents IL
discussed in notes by Edgar Sisson, who
brought the documents out Of Russia
for the Committee on Public Informal
ton.
The Plot for . Shameful Pence.
Germany made its Russian peace with
rs own puppet government. the mis-
named council OF Peoples Commissars,
the president of which is Vladimir Uli-
anov (Lenine). the Foreign Minister OF
which was Leon Trotsky and the Am.
bassador of which to Germany Is A.
Joffe. Germany made this peace harder
upon the Russian people as punishment
to the ambition of its tools in seeking to
become too powerful and in hoping for
little while not only that Russia would
be delivered over to them but that they
could double cross their masters by
turning a simulated German revolution
Into a real one.
But their craftiness was a toy in the
hands Of rough German force. Ger.
many was actually double crossing them
hv rot Ia In vvi ha II init De- IL
at the moment they dreamed they were
tricking Germany.
Germany. however. did not discard the
Bolshevik leaders. recognising their
further use in the German world cam.
paign for internal disorganization in the
nations with which IL wars, but confined
them to the limited inland province
which Great Russia proper has now be.
come.
Lenine for Any German Peace.
Lenine. according to statements made
public as soon as Trotsky's spectacular
device of mo peace--No war" failed
always was for peace on any German
terms. He dominated the situation
thereafter and conceded everything thai
Germany asked. Nor did Trotsky ceas,
to continue to obey the German order:
delivered to him both by Gen. Hoffman
At Brest-Litovsk and at Petrograd, d.
rectly by the Russian division OF tn,
German General Staff. which was seated
in Petrograd itself from November, anc
which was still there in full operation
when I left, Monday. March 4, the da,
that Petrograd received notification tina
peace had been signed at -Litovsl
by the Russian and German delegations
Trotsky, therefore. rests rightly unde
the accusation of having staged his the
atrical scene as a climax to the RussiaI
Reorganization desired by Germany
The actual order he gave was for tn,
Immediate rehabilitation Of the Russian
army. leaving the German army unop
posed.
The actual effect OF the work Of tn,
Bolshevik leaders, moreover. was to en-
able Germany to combine its forme
army OF the Russian front with its west
ern army for the launching OF its Marcel
offensive in France. Such has been tn,
fruition OF Russia's German directe,
Bolshevikism.
The following documents tell the stor,
of the betrayal of Russia to a shameful
and ruinous peace: