New-York tribune., 1918-07-14
BoIsheuiki Desert
"To Enemy" Trotzky
Says at Conference

MOSCOW, July 13 (via Amsterdam)
Speaking at the All-Russian Soviet
Conference, now in session here, Leon
Trotzky, the Bolshevik Minister Of War
and Marine, declared that he had re
ceived news from the front that unity
among the Soviet troops had suffered
as the result of Anglo French propa-
ganda.
Part of the Bolshevik force, the min
lister added, had "deserted to the en-
emy.'
LONDON, July ia few days ago,
the "Tidens Tegn." of Copenhagen,
said it learned from Vardoe. 1000 Rus
sian Bolshevik troops arrived at Muir
man, on the Arctic coast. Counter
revolutionaries knew of the intended
ed and disarmed them. Later the Rus
sian government soldiers were al
lowed to return to Moscow.
The revolutionary movement IN Mos
COW against the Bolsheviki does not
appear to have been suppressed, ac-
cordng to the Kiev correspondent of
the "Rheirischc Westfaeliche Zeitung,
of Essen. The Bolsheviki are only able
to hold their own through the assist
Tells Of Mirbach's Death
The assassination Of Count Won Mir
bach, the German Ambassador at Mos
COW, was ordered by the executives of
the Social Revolutionaries OF the Left
and was carried out in person by one
of the party's confidential agents, says
another Kiev dispatch to the "Zei-
tung."
This agent, whose name is known,
the correspondent declares, wrote the
documents which gained the assassins
entrance to Won Mirbach's quarters,
and himself performed the act of ter
rorism which the party had ordered.
Commenting on developments in
Russia, where, it says, events arc NOV
ing with great rapidity, ."rhe Tines
contends that the Czecho-Slovaks, "who
have practically seized all Siberia,
must be helped without delay"
"Manifestly, Japan is in the best
position to send help quickly" "The
Times" adds, "but we trust that event
ually all the Allies will participate in
an enterprise so full Of PROMISE
Germans Are Warned
In an editorial in its issue Of July
6. which displays anxiety over devcl-
opments in Russia, the "Frankfurter
Zeitung" infers that the successes of
the Czecho-Slovaks have overcome the
objections Of the Entente to interven-
ton, and it refers to "the undertaking
which England is preparing from the
north against the heart of European
Russia" as more serious than the at
tack which it assumes the Japanese
will deliver from the East.
The newspaper thinks that the Mos |
cow Soviet government is faced with /
immediate peril. and it dwells upon the
successes of the Czecho -Slovaks, with /
whom, it says, the Entente seems al
ready to have established connec-
ton.
Assuming that the Entente expects
to compel Germany "to strengthen its |
protection" in the East, the newspaper
continues:
'"The political menace to the work
accomplished at Brest-Litovsk seems |
more important. That work, with it's
many obscurities, never contained
guarantee Of permanence, and the
events of the last few months have
made holes in it everywhere. If the
Entente's action should lead to the
collapse of the Soviet government, |
very little Of the Brest-Litovsk peace |
would remain, and the task which /
seemed to have been accomplished
would face German policy once more
task that would be more difficult
than it was the first time"