The Washington herald., 1918-09-11
B0LSHEVIKI IN
PACT TO JOIN
WAR0N ALLIES
Francis Wires Details Of
New Treaty with
Germans.
PAY HUGE INDEMNITY
Soviet Stand Ignored in
Ententes Plans to
Aid Russia.
PAY HUGE INDEMNITY

The Bolshevik government has
signed another supplemental treaty
with Germany providing for war on
the Allies.
This information came to the State
Department yesterday in a message
trom Ambassador Francis at Arch
angel. The substance Of the new
treaty is as follows:
II Russia fights the Allies in the
north. Germany will guarantee that
no attack shall be made from or
through Finland on Russia. and after
the expulsion of the Allied forces,
Germany will further guarantee the
security of Russia's coastwise and
hshiRg fleets.
In addition, Ambassador Francis
forwarded information regarding the
six billion marks indemnity that Ger
many has cxacted from Russia One
In goods from Ukraine, while the re-
malnder shall be in gold or paper,
ct German marks
Exact Date Unknown-
The BolsheVik stand will not. in
any way. Interfere with the plans
OF the allies for the rehabilitation
OF Russia. The exact date of the
signing OF the new treaty is not
known, nor is il definitely estab-
fished whether il was promulgated
before or after the Soviet declara-
tiOn Of state of defense" in Mos
COW several weeks ago. The mis-
treatment and persecution OF allied
envoys and diplomats began, how
ever. shortly after the state of de-
fense'' was declared and reached its
greatest intensity at the time Of the
attempted assassination of Lenine.
Because Of events of the past few
weeks in Russia, though, and the
realization OF the BoIsheyiki that
their chief hope of holding power
la.- in a closer alliance with Ger
many. the developments related yes
tcrday by Ambassador Francis have
not been entirely unexpected.
War" said a high State Depart
ment official yesterday afternoon, IT
explanation of the message, exists
only between recognized states"
Warfare UnrecognIIed.
Tnis places the Bolsheviki in tht
position Of having any actual declara-
ton of war unrecognized by the allied
governments, although the latter
would naturally adopt whatever meas
ures they deemed fit to oppose armed
RoIshevlsts or their adherents.
European Russia from now on will
apparently be cloaked with veil of
mystery, save for the occasional dis
patches which may come from Am
bassadOr Francis and Consul General
Poole. who is still at Moscow. Prac-
tically all means of communication
are in the hands OF the Bolshevih or
the Germans, and those Americans
Englishmen and Frenchmen who late
ly reached Sweden are thankful they
escaped with their lives.
Mr.. Poole in an advice to the State
Department yesterday morning said
that his fear OF reprisals on Amer
leans caused him to send his staff
10 Sweden and also to turn over the
} AFFAIRS of his Office to the Norwegian
1 government
Discussed by Cabinet.
The Russian situation is understood
% have been one of the main topics
under discussion yesterday at the
Cabinet meeting. President Wilson
md the Cabinet officers were in ses-
zion for two hours. There is no dis
position, II was SAID, 1or tne Hresi-
tent to announce the personnel of the
economic mission he plans for Russia
Inc smuch as its chief work would be
performed In a partly pacified coun'
Try, and conditions in Russia today
ire far from settled.
Dispatches to the State Department
from Vladivostok indicate no mate
rial change in the Eastern front. Tel
egraphic communication between
Erkutsk. Ekaterinburg and Samara ha:
been re-established, one message said
and this was taken to mean that tht
Iast-named town was still in the pos
session of the Czecho-Slovaks.
The state Department, 1t was said
has no confirmation OF the report thai
the BoIsheviki have threatened whole
sale reprisals on allied citizens in the
event that Lenine succumbs to the
wounds inflicted on him in the at
fau1nf on his life