The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-28
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)

London, June 28.-Germany
and the Russian Bolsheviki gov!
ernment, in a secret convention
regarding the future of Poland,
have virtually agreed to cooper
ate in crushing Polish nationalist
aspirations. Details of the treaty
have been printed iii the news
paper, The Nations Voice Of
Cracow, Galicia, according to a
dispatch to~The Times from Mi
Ian.
r. Advices assert the Grand Duke
Nicholas has been proclaimed emper-
or and Moscow has been captured
from the: Bolsheviki
Nikoli Lenine, premier, and Leon
Trotzky, minister Of war, were said
to have fled to the ,Murman coast
The Copenhagen newspapers, the
Agency dispatch adds give prominence
to a Berlin dispatch quoting the Tages
Zeitung of that city, as follows:
."It is believed here that the Boil.
sheviki government will soon. be. over
thrown and that Kerensky is the man
of the future In Russia. ? So.
General Kaledinesk Is said to- have
cooperated with General .korniloff in
the capture Of Moscow.
The advices declare that the sup.
pOrters OF Grand Duke Nicholas have
overthrown the. Soyiets throughout
F. the Siaerian provinces of Irkutsk,
BlagOvieshtichensk and KhabarOvsk.
The defeat OF the Bolsheviki is said
to have, been made possible by the
victoriey 81 the Czecho-sloyak forces
and the treachery of the Red Guard.
= Several detachments of the Red
Guard are declared to have murdered
their officers and hen surrendered.
The exchange telegraph company
publishes its message containing the
report sof the B0lshevik overthrow
and the accompanying details with
reserve" and point out that the in.
formation emanated mainly from Ger.
man sources and therefore should be
received with caution.
The B0lsheviki government pledg.
ed itself to recognize Austro German
Hegemony in Poland and to aid in
defending it against the former al
lies of Russia.
The Cracow newspaper describes
the treaty as a "scandalous document
showing the treachery of the Bolshev.
Xxi and the .baseness of the Germans" ,"
It gives the gist Of the eight articles
of the agreement as follows:
Germany Supreme.
First. The Polish policy shall be
conducted by Germany.
Second. The Russian government
pledges itself not to interfere with the
organization of Poland.
Third. The, Russian government
may keep in touch with democratic
and revolutionary clubs in Poland
through agitators known to the Ger
man information bureau.
Fourth. The sending OF agitators
to Germany and Austria shall be sus.
pended by the Russian government.
Fifth. Russia shall exercise strict
vigilance over Polish national groups
so as to prevent them from enlisting
in the Russian territorial army.
To Aid Huns. -.
Sixth. Russia shall consider viola.
ton of the frontiers of Lithuania and
the Ukraine by Polish troops as dec.
laration of war on Germany and Aus
tria- Hungary and shall aid in crush
ing such troops.
Seventh. Russia shall prevent Rus
sian citizens from investing their own
or French, British or American capital
in any Industrial undertaking in Po'
land. y=
Eighth Russia pledges itself to rec.
ognize the eventual new state OF
things to be created by Germany and
Austria in Poland, and to defend it
against Russia's former allies.
BoLsHEviks OVERTHROW :
London. June 2s.-According to un-