The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-18
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harsky and Piatokov-who are under
f,,lt direction of the AuStro-HunCarian
high command,
This completely convictinE sentence
clinches the proof Of conspiracy:
The commander-in-chle of the
Russian army has been made &C
ouainted hy shot with plans OF the
Austro-German high command n
will cooperate with him
Disclosures Of a cold-blooded p'an
OF assassination and the arrning OF
German prisoners of war as kuSSlah
soldiers is contained in a similar COM
nunicatton dated In December. 1871.
The United States government ais
has a photograph Of this paper. II
rays in part:
The agents sent by order from Pc
t-ograd 10 kill Generals kaledin,
I~ogaevsky and Alexief were cowardly
and non-enterprising people, The
agents passed through 10 karau}off.
The cor COMMUNICATION OF General kaie-
din with the Americans and English
are beyond doubt, but they limit
themselves entirely 20 financial as
~sistance.
The major also ORGANIZED q dc
tachment of prisoners Of war. N &C
cordance with the directions given ny
the July conference at kronstadt.
participated in by Messrs Lcnine
fthen follow other names). They
o part in the battles, dressed in
Russian army and naval uniforms
Donblc-C Cross fc BoIstieyiki.
How the Bolshevik chiefs. them
selves, were double-crossed by Ger
many is shown in another official
communication Of the Bolshovtk
'counter-espionage, dated January
10. 1918, and addressed to the Rus
stan commission for combating the
counter-rcvo!ution. The following
appears
There have been sent Comrades
Nfasinkn tand others, "ho more
than once have very successfully per
formed service. The
comnaissary in his cipher telegram in
dicates that the Gerna and Austrian
assigned from Fetrograd tnamcd) are
playing a doubie role, reporting OF
what is happening at ~Petrogiad an(
they carry on an intensive agitation
in favor Of a separate peace Of tht
Ukraine with the central powers and
70. the restoring Of order Their WORK
is having success
Confederation of the German
treachery is found in another report
Of the "counter-espiouaEe.' dated
January 80. 1918, which contains
these statements.
You are informed that the German
and Austrian officers located at kien
now have private meetings with mem
hers of the deposed Rada. They in
sistently inform US Of the inevitable
signing and ratification of peac,
treaties. both between the Ikrain'
and the central powers and between
Runlania and Austria and Germany.
t -eftt4 Tt~et-HetH4ttee-
II is pointed out IN the accompany
ing notes of MIR. ssisson that the Ger
man plan had the advantage of no
only discipiining the ~Petrograd Bol
sheviks. but also of dlsunifyIng Russia
still further. Germany. however. did
not discard Lenine and Trotzky. rec
ognizins their further use and Nalu,
as an indispensable tool in It's worlc
campaign for internal d-lsorpaniZa
ton in the nations with which it wa
at war and 10 complete the ~consptrac!
SO thai on February {. 1918, tho
German staff is found to he secretly
plotting for the overthrow Of Genera
Boneh-BrucviCh the Russian general
Here is the evidence.
Agent c. Missirof Is TO ne sent tC
the stan Of the Russian nigh com
mand, where. according 10 the pre-,
vlous discussion between Genera
Hoffman and Commissars Trctzky ane
Jore. he will keep watch on the ac.
tivity Of the head Of the staff. Genera
Bruevich, in the capacity a.
assistant TO the Commissars Kalmano.
ylch and f~'eierabend.'
The original note from which tbs
above is copied is now in the posses
sion of the United states government
Finally the deposition Of Boneh
Rruevieh and the naming Of a Berlin
favorite in his stead was ~pcrenptorill
demanded in "a German note dated
- Februar. 70, ittf-ft stated that ttrr
Russian generals actions do no
meet the approval OF the German
high command" and that his 'con
tlnuance in the position of general il
practically no longer desired
The naming Of Genera parskt a
commander IN chief OF the armed
Russia AA& Insisted ul0n IL
the note. 1t IS scarcely necessary 4
add that Parski was appointed. hi
WAS the general formerly In com
mand at Riga, which vas ~surrendcre,
10 the Germans without adequate de
tense IN the early autumn Of lSl7.
Tomorrow install FaeH t-u viii felat1
10 the Vaccinations Of TrUtzkS in
spired by the German General Hof
man from disruption 81 RoumanIa.
Increase in shipping.