The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-09-21
PLOTS AGAINST RUSSIANS.
GERMAN TRICKERY EXPOSED
IN DOCUMENTS.
Sale of BoIsheviki-So-calI Govern
men Was Fully Informed of Work
OF Huns in Ukraine.

washington, sept. lf.-Gerlnau!
trickery in breaking the Ukraine
away from the bought-and-paid-fo
Bolshevik government, plots against
loyal Russian soldiers and their lead
ers to insure complete German sway
after The false peace conference siat
Brest-Litovsk and further evidence
of the precautions of the Tutons1
against Bolshevik preaching in their
own ranks are shown in today's in
stallment of secret documents from
Russia made public by the United
States government.
Communications written in January
disclose that the Bolsheviki were full
ly informed of what the Germans
were doing in the Ukraine, and knew
that peace treaties with the Ukraine
and Roumania were coming. They
also learned, quickly enough that Ger
many was disposing Of their hopes
to see their revolutionary propaganda
took on German soil.
Notes from the German intelli-
gence service to Trotzky, the commits
sar of foreign affairs, showed first
| that Turk with a, Russian passport
was sent to Petrograd to keep watch
over the Russian commander in chief
and that month afterward, late in
February, removal of the commander
| in chief, General Bonch-Bruevick,
was demanded. Brunevick, whose
| continuance in the position was par
ticularly no longer desirable to the
| German intelligence service, was ap-
pointed to command the Petrograd
district
Another note from the intelligence
service complains that 1.-The agents
sent to kill Kaledin, Bokaevsky and
Alexief were cowardly. non-enterpris-
ing people," This same document
shows as long ago as December,
1917, former German prisoners OF
war were being dressed in Russian
uniforms to fight loyal Russian SOL
diers.
The significance of the documents
| is discussed in notes by Edgar Sis
son, who brought the documents out
of Russia for the committee on pub
| lie information.
Germany made its Russian peace
with its own puppet government the
misnamed council Of people commits
sars, the president Of which is Vlad1-
mir Ulinaov (Lenin) the foreign
minister of which was Leon TrotZky,
and the ambassador of which to Ger
many is A Joffe. Germany made this
peace harder upon the Russian people
as punishment to the ambition Of Its
tools in seeking to become too power
full and in hoping for a little4swhiie
not only that Russia would besdelIF=
cred over to them, but that they coHld
double-cross their masters by turning
a simulated Norman revolutions into a
real one.
But their craftiness was a toy in
the hands of rough German force.
Germany was actually donbleserossr
ing them by negotiating with q. -
i Ukrainian Rada at the moment they
dreamed they were tricking Ger
many. (
Germany: however, did not discard
the Bolshevik leaders, recognizing
their further use in the German world
campaign for internal disorganizatlon
in the nations with which it wars
but confined them to the limited in
land province which Great Russia
proper has now become. =,
Lenin, according TO statements made
public as soon as TrotzEy's spectacu.
lar device of '.No Peace--No War;
failed, always was for peace on any
German terms. He dominated the
situation thereafter and conceded ev-
Eerything that Germany asked. Nor
did TrotZky cease to continue to obey
the German orders delivered to him
both by General Hoffman, at Brest-
Litovsk and at Petrograd, directly by
the Russian division of the German
general staff, which was seated in
Petrograd itself from November, and
which was still there in full opera
tion when I left, Monday, March +.
the day that Petrograd received noti-
1ication that peace had been signed
at Brest-Litovsk by the Russian and
German delegations.
Trotzky, therefore, rests rightly un-
der the accusation Of having staged
Russian disorganiZation desired by
Germany. The actual order he gave
was for the immediate demobilization
of the Russian army, leaving the Ger
man army unopposed.
The actual effect Of the work Of the
Bolshevik leaders, moreover, was to
enable Germany to combine it's form
er army of the Russian front with its
western army for the launching Of its
March offensive in France Such has
been the fruition of Russia's German
directed Bolshevikism.
(The documents showing the de-
tails of the story of Russia's betrayal
are omitted fer lack of space today.)
BEHIND THE PRESIDENT.