The Washington herald., 1918-08-14
GERMANS SEE
COMING
OUT OF RUSSIA
Move Toward Petrograd
Gives No Anxiety to
Entente.
HUN MISSION SCUTTLES
Press Explains Diplomats
viii Resume Liberty
of Action.

The Russian situation Is daily
Growing more perilous for Germany
according to dispatches to entente
embassies received here yesterday.
Now that the Bolsheyist power
has been shaken and is momentarily
nearing the breaking point, little
anxiety is evidenced because Of the
reported movement of German
troops toward Petrograd. Should
they occupy the city. such action,
in itself. il Is believed, would serve
to awaken the great mass Of the
Russian people to their duplicity.
A cable from Berne yesterday to
the French Embassy says that
HeIfferich is on his way to general
headquarters to report on the Rus
sian situation. This is attributed
to the Lokal Anseiger, which also
says he will stay at general head
quarters for several days, and
which announces that members Of
the German diplomatic mission in
Russia have already arrived at
Helsingfors.
Desperate to Explain.
Meatims another dispatch from
Berne says "the situation develop
ing in Russia appears to be causing
the greatest embarrassment and
anxiety to the Germans" It adds:
The Germans are striving by all
means in their power to explain in
, a way which only tends to emphasize
their dimculties.-the defeat Of Their
diplomatic mission The official
note by the wol1 bureau. which an
nounces the transfer of the German
diplomatic mission to PskOv, was
followed by comments from the
Frankfurter Zeitung and the Lokal
Anseiger. The reasons given by
these newspapers Is that the Ger
man government. on the eve Of
the downfall OF the Bolshevists,
wishes to keep its liberty of ac-
tion and insure its being able to
follow events a little distance
away"
Quit Relations With Soviet.
The two papers say the removal
of the mission means that it will
no longer be able to keep up regu-
lar relations with the Soviet gov
ernment. and one asserts:
"One has a right to ask IL this Is
not the beginning Of Germany's aban-
donment Of the Bolshevist govern
ment."
The Russian Republican League at
Paris yesterday addressed to Tchain-
kowski, president Of the provisional
Russian government at Archangei.
the following telegram:
The committee of the Russian Re-
publican League at Paris salutes your
nomination, which promises the re-
generation of Russia and its liberia
ton from the German and Bolshevist
yoke. in close and active alliance with
the Entente. which is bringing its gen.
serous aid to Russia"
sIav Troubles within.
Meantime other Slav activity, out
side OF Russia, is worrying Germany.
The Vienna correspondent of the
Frankfurter Zeitung reproduces an ex-
tract from the Reichenberger Zei-
tung. which IS causing keen agitation
in German circles in Vienna. 1t re-
fers to the refusal OF the Czechs in
Bohemia to furnish foodstuffs to Ger
mans unless they are given arms and
ammunition in return.
The German national deputy. Hartt,
has addressed to the President of the
Council. the Minister OF the Interior
and the Governor OF Bohemia a petit
ton, which says in part:
1T is a fact that at the present
moment the Czechs are provisioning
themselves, by the means that 1 have
lust described, in arms and ammuni-
ton, whereas we Germans are being
deprived of them more and more every
day. 1 consider this fact as ex-
tremely serious, and fell bound to
call the attention Of competent
authorities to It."