New-York tribune., 1918-01-01
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petrosrad Cor INT
Indicates Bolshevik Upris-
ing Was German Plan
Accounts Contradict
Other Reports to London Say
Radical Faction Strives for
Law and Order

LONDON, Dec. 81. - The "rimcs'
prints long letter from It's Pctrorraf
correspondent. dated Saturday, which
purports to substantiatc the view tha,
INC Rolshcvik revolt was managed BY
Germany and that the movement is cs.
scntinl!y anti-natonal and anti-Rus-
sian The letter says:
1T IS notorious fact and has been
proved by documents in possession of
'He herensky government that Ger
many commissioned Lcninc and gave
hIm money to so to Russia to sow
dissatisfaction in the Russian 'armv.''
ihe Bolshcvik government is ex-
iremely efficient. energetic and doci
slvn' though faced by noisy opposition
rom the privileged classes. who are
oolhE all they can to check it t.;
sabotage and libel, according to the
ietrograd correspondent of the "Daily
News" The correspondents who has
gust returned to Petrograd after q
lengthy visit in England says that the
city IS more orderly than for soma
months before tho Bolsheviki took
control. The people NAV not like tho
Doishevlkl, he declares, but thew ohev
them with startling alacrity, and tho
government is based on real force.
viii Open Assembly
An instance Of Bolshevik lbels.
the correspondent declares. is the as
sertion that they are refusing to permit
,llc opening OF the Constituent Assem-.
ply. lie says the Rolsh eyiki have moth
ing against the opening Of the assem-
ply as soon as quorum can be formed
oy the presence of 400 delegates. Up
TO frl!day, however. only 391 properly
aecfedi'ed delegates were in Petrograd.
ne adds that the government has moth
ing TO- tear from an immediate convcn-
ing of the assembly, We're that nossi-
BILE. '''' Po''l-
The Constituent Assembly, the cor
respondent hears. will meet as soon
ha delegates from the Ukraine arrive
perhaps in ten days. lie asserts tbnt
Whatever is the decision OF the AS
sembly as constituted at present it will
not alter tho essential direction OF
russian policy, although it might by
weakening the government at home.
"eaken 1t IN its dealings with the Ger
mans
Anarchy Is Feared.
Any attempt to turn out the Bolshe-
ia SoTeINuieht pV IOrce would result
only in anarchy favorable to the Ger
mans, says the correspondent, who does
not believe that such force is available.
]!e writes enthusiastically about Leon
'rrotzky, The Bolshevik Foreign Min
lster, who told him that the war would
be dec .ded by social rather than mil
ltnry pressure. Trotzky is quoted as
saying:
THE German tlrmocracy looks to the +
R rAesinn revolutions. Il is the rccoe-
lition OF this fact that compcls the
-'e.man government to accent Russian I
principles as the basis for negotia- /
ions" /
Trotzky said the German offer was
victory for the democratic move
nent generally, not only of the Rus
Jan and German democracy. Austria
hungary, he said, is on the point of !
'evoit, and every countrv in Europe
s feeling the pressure of democracy
rom below The German attitude,
Trotzky added means that the Ger
nan government is wiser than moss
governments. because il recognizes
real factors.
Democratic pressure, Trotzkv is
quoted as adding, forced the Germans
o reject their grandiose plans of con-
luest and to accept the peace in which
here are neither conaueror nor con
luered. He admitted, however. that
uch a peace could hardly be achieved
lnless the Entente Allies join the
regulations.
Pro-Ally Russians. the correspondent
# "The Daily News says. feel that
;ermany's terms offered ut Brest-
itovsk were for the purpose of CON
oundinr the Allies and winning SYM
'athy These Russians oppose a sepa-
ate peace, but say The next word be-
ongs TO the Allies.