Evening star., 1918-07-09
.LEN|NE STRIVES TO
PLACATE GERMANS
Berlin Tries to Fasten Assas-
sination of Won Mirbach on
Entente Agents.
TEUT0NS ARE AROUSED
By the Associated Pre-

~ SbNS
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July s.-Nikolai Lenine.
the bolshevik premier. is endeavoring
to placate the Germans by appointing
an Extraordinary commission Of In
vestigation" to probe the death OF
Count Won Mirbach. The commission
is headed by "Comrade Peters"
Meanwhile Berlin is doing its ut
most to make capital out of the Won
Mirbach affair. A German official ac-
count of the assassination concludes:
'The result of a preliminary inquiry
permits the assumption that agents IN
the service of the entente are impli-
Gated in the affair"
Counter Revolt Suppressed:
The counter-revolutiona rising in
Moscow has been suppressed and the
revolutionaries are making most ig-
nominious flight. Orders have been
issued to arrest and to disarm all
members of the social revolutionary
detachments and to shoot on the spot
all who resist. Several hundred par
ticipants in the rising have been ar
rested, among them Vice Chairman
Alexandrovitch. while specia! orders
have been issued to secure all mem
bers of the executive committee OF the
social revolutions ~ party.
The murder Of Count Won Mirbach
has caused great excitement in Ger
many, the Exchange Telegraph cor
respondent at Copenhagen reports. All
the German newspapers use violent
tr the
event. but at the same time are gen.
orally in agreement that the bolshe-
vik government was not connected
with the assassination.
The Wolff Bureau telegram from
Moscow. the Copenhagen dispatch
lists admitted they were concerned In
the plot to assassinate the ambassa-
dor.
Man Behind Plot, Is Claim.
German newspapers now are point
ing to Gen. Savinkofr, who was wal
minister in the Kerensky cabinet. az
the man behind the Won Mirbach plot
| which is being gradually developed by
the Teuton press into a great anti
German movement, backed by all those
men whom Germany has found to oe
| hindrances in her plans OF aggression
| in Russia. A Moscow telegram circu.
lated by the Wolff News Bureau OF
Berlin says:
| "Savinkoff is considered to be re-
sponsible for the deed. He Is, more
| over, said to be closely connected VIII
| the Czecho-Slovak and social revolu-
tionary movements. His whereabouts
Is unknown"
Radical Move Is Seen.
German newspapers are preparing
the public for a radical move agafns'
Russia as punishment for the Miroacn
affair. Exactly what this move VIII
be is not as yet indicated, but Dutch
and Scandinavian newspapers hint al
march on Moscow, and dispatches
are printed showing that German
forces now are about 800 miles west
of that city and are being heavily re-
inforced.
German newspapers give many col
umns to developments in the Mirbach
case, particularly long kilograms IRON
Moscow praising the work that Count
Won Mirbach did there and descrioins
the alleged treaeherous % manner nntn,no os nos
which the assassirs gained entrance
to his Office by posing as delegates OF
a commission for combating the So
cial reyolutionist movement. 1t Il
stated that they fired their revolvers
not only at Cont Won Mirbach. but aise
at German Councillor Kicker ano
Lieut., Muller, who were In the room
| Immedfately after the firing the!
jumped from a window, hurilng hano
grenades back Of them as they jump
ed They 'leaped into waiting auto
mobile and escaped.
Germans Fearful.
THE HAGUE. July s.-Germans re.
turning from Moscow recently says
the Vossssche Zeitung, referring te
the Won Mirbach case, have expressed
fear that complete anarchy u thel. ar
might endanger persons who: IN ar
orderly country, would be safe from
harm 1t gives the following alleged
nuotation from a speaker at a rail-
way strike meeting In Moscow:
at is time to. throw on the moose
won Mirbach has put around our necks
otherwise a cheerful death threatens
us- Away with German capital! Away
with Won Mirbach and his whole
counter-revolutiona band!
| soviets Are Absolved.
| AMSTERDAM. July s.-comments ir
the Vo,sische Zeitung, the Lokal An.
taeiper and the Nordeutsche Allge'
| rine Zeitune, and other German news
papers, copies of which have been re-
ceived here. all tend to absolve the
l soviet government VI
sponsibility for the murder OF Coun,
Won Mirbach, German ambassador te
Russia The newspapers hint at al
iintrrue of the entente government.
70 row distrust between Germany ant
the soviet government
| T,ha Vosstsche Zeitung expresses tht
hone that British over-cleverneso hai
q s-nin produced one of those follte.
Which may easily result In tho exac
lonnoaite to what was intended.
Assassins Defended.
According to a Moscow telegram t
the Frankfurter Zeitung, the two
| assassins of Count Won Mtrbach fet
after committing the crime to q build
in1 occupied by social revoluttonists
where they were being defended witt
machine guns. 1t is declared In thu
| adyices that the ASSASSINATION OF th'
| German ambassador was TO nave peer
the signal for a big revolt under thu
leadership of the social revolutionlsts
but that this failed to materiali1e OF
the scale that had been planned. L
seems from this account that tn.
firhtinr between the bolsheviki ant
| social revolutionists reported takinf
nIoca in Moscow was an outgrowth o.
the Won Mirbach affair. The Frank
Sort message from Moscow mentioned
! eunh firhting as taking place in va
rio,1s parts Of the city when the dis
match was filed, but gave no details.
| Changes Are Imminent.
| "chanRes in Russia are imminent
sava the Frankfurter Zeitung. IF th'