The evening leader., 1918-09-11
(SECOND INSTALLMENT.) J
Betrayal Of Her Country.

lnen came Cne Wdf. Inc cA~lrl4l.A
started well. Emerging as a sistra.
or sister of mercy, she officially won
all hearts. In the Palace of Tsarkoye
Selo she would even graciously conde-
scend to chat at the bedside of poor
miserable conscripts from the Volga
and the Don.
Camoufiage!
In these opening months of the war
she was daily supplying h.ndenburg
with the complete Russian field cipher,
so that the d Wizard Of the Marsh
es' knew each contemplated move Of
the Russian forces almost as soon as
the Russian General staff had decided
the moves in question. Every wireless
message sent by the Russians was
read by the enemy. Rennenkamf, who
led the Tannenberg debacle, was one
of the empress's star agents, as we
shall see later. l hope the empress
remembers Tannenberg-th most
awful military catastrophe since Bo-
rodino-tens of thousands of simple
Russian moujiks stuck fast in the Ma
surian swamps, starving, drowning,
dying slowly of wounds.
Meanwhile the empress's war popu-
larity increased. She put three i'm
perial Red Cross trains in the field
with rowing commission to wander
doing Gods work from Riga to the
Bukowina.
More camoufage!
The writer slept on one of those
trains before Warsaw one night.
Priests-fat, ongzhaired young men
!-seemed to infest every compart-
ment. On leaving in the morning you
had to report yourself, not to the co..
onel in command but to one Of these
young men, He couldn't, or wouldn't,
talk Russian. We said goodby in Ger
man. The incident stands out in bold
Ter relief today. These trains, able to
wander all along the 800-mile front,
their personnel able to collect all the
LATEST military intelligence and note
every movement of troops, were the
finest spving contrivances yet thought
out in this or any war. Occasionally,
when really important operations
were or foot, the czarina would ap-
pear personally in one of her trains
to encourage the troops. "Long live
the empressp would fervcntly cry a
thousand moujiks, quivering with
pride at being so near the exalted one.
The beautiful lady in the train would
smile benevolently down on her de-
voted children and then adjourn to her
boudoir to continue her report telling
thu enemy precisely where these very
children of hers were going to attack
, The men who one day formed her
guard of honor at some wayside sta
ton were as likely as not diving on
the German wire few days later as
the result of hcr treachery.
Giving Aid to the Enemy.
At Russian general headquarters
the German-hating Grand Duke Mich
, olas, the only man who could have
saved Russia, one day r-fuscd = ~e-
ceive her. He knew what was going
on. In less than six months he was
fallen exile in the Caucasus. Aft
that the empress frequently appeared
at headquarters in order to kc,n har
notes on the campaign up to date
Her husband was then gene se'n1o.
everything was an open book to her
One need hardy dwell on the various
phases of her treachery. Half the
early submarinings of vessels carry
ing away army stores from the allies
to Russia may be placed indirectly to
her account. Also the mining of the
Hampshire with Lord Kitchener on
board. Not only did this woman know
everything Russia was doing but also
a very large slice of what France and
England contemplated All went into
the intelligence pool for Berlin. L
was she again who caused her dupa
Rennekannpf (brother of the German
/ governor of Thorne) to hold up his
cavalry for twelve vital hours at LODI,
where they were to have been let in
on Mackensen, encircled there with
his three corps. Again at Tarnoff
when Mackcnsen1 burst the Russ IN
line and precipitated the great retreat
Of 1915, it was the empress Who r.
formed the German general staG hat
the grand duke had withdrawn NEST
of the Sd Russian army's artillery in
order to reinforce Broussilof's 9th