The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-11
Proclaim Wilson Failed To Pre-.
vent japanese Invasion.
EXaggerate Situation To Make
German Rule More Welcome.
SUPPRESS WORKERS UNIONS
Germany'S First Move in Rus
sia Is To Disperse Labor.
Many Executions Accompany
Hun Invaders Iron Fist.
BY JOSEPH sHAPLEN.

Petrograd March 10 evening"
Russian public opinion is most sur
prised at the failure of President VIII
son and America to halt Japan's hand
in Siberia.
Those opposed to the Bolshevik
regime point out that this failure
gives the Bo1sheviki basis for their
argument that imperalists in all coun-
tries are united against the Russian
revolution.
Attacking Prince Lvoff and others.
reported concerned with organizing a
provisional Siberian government. the
newspaper Pravda said today:
Traitors to that fatherland, over
whose name they have made such a
I fuss, have now surrendered to the
Japanese and the allied impera1ists,
hoping to aid foreign troops to re-
conquer the country. But they are
deeply mistaken. Historical examples
prove that such efforts have always
failed. Vainly do the landlords and
capitalists hope to profit by the
Japanese invasion. They are simply
them with Russia"
Rumania Now Hun Aide.
The Rumanians are already begin
ming to fulfill their separate peace OBJ
ligation-which is to aid the Austro-
Germans to occupy Odessa and other
points on the coast of the Black sea
and the sea of Azoff. Rumanians a re
interfering with the efforts of Russian
soviet troops to halt the invaders.
! A number of prominent Russian
conservative leaders and financiers
! have arrived at Nladivostok, according
to messages from Irkutsk. 1t is al
legged that the Japanese and these
Russians have agreed to plan
whereby the coast will be occupied by
military forces. Director Putiioff OF
| the Russo-Asiatic- bank is said to be
| the chief financier of this scheme. He
| is also a member of Ivoffs provisional
Siberian government.
Govt Moving to Moscow.
The government is moving to Mos
| COW as a first step in organization OF
resistance on all fronts, according tC
an official press announcement today
! 1t is believed it may be necessary
| for the Bolshevik government to fight
! both Germany and Japan.
| The Bolsheviki congress has dis
carded the name "Social-Democrati tic
and adopted the title of the Com
munist party as it does not wish to
| have any similarity to the German
| party of which Philip Scheidemanr
| is the leader in the reichstag-
! A treaty of alliance with the Finnish
| Red guards has been signed by the
Bolshevik government, offsetting the
guards in Finland.
| PerSecute Slav Captives.
| Details of German treatment of the
! inha bitants of lands which they over
run continue to come in. In Finland
| the German police and military system
| is invoked against the people. Tht
newspapers have been suppressed
Workingmen's organizations have
been dispersed and hundreds arrested
Many are reported executed il
| Esthonia, where even the bourgeoisi'
! have been strongly curbed by tn.
| Germans.
| (The bourgeoise were suspected b,
| the Bolsheviki of favoring the German
| invasion.)
| Most violent prosecutions were re
| ported from Riga.
Smolensk reported heavy German
| forces moving from Homel toward
Novozibkoff, which city the Russian
| are preparing to defend. German
concentrated on the Orsha front hav,
retreated