Evening journal., 1918-09-18
BERLIN'S RUSSIAN
PLOT IS EXPOSED
Secret Documents Show
Means Used to Prevent
Bolshevik Growth
ASSASSINS WERE
FOUND INEFFICIENT

WASHINGTON, Sept is.-German
trickery in breaking the Ukraine away
from the bought and paid for Bolshevik
government, plots against loyal Russian
soldiers and their leaders to insure COM
plete German sway after the false peace
conference at Brest-Litovsk, and fur
ther evidence OF the precautions OF the
Teutons against Bolshevik preaching In
tAeir own ranks, are shown in the lat
sst tnstaIIment OF secret documents
frucp,Anssia made public by the United
6tahs government.
C6uununicRtlons written in January
AQt&pse thstthe Bolshevik leaders were
DiH tnforrned OF what the Germans
sA ding in the Ukraine, and knew
b&oe Gesties with the Ukraine and
k&o6nfa were coming. They also
7taiad uutpkly enough that Germany
}k3 nkpnsins OF their hopes TO see
~ revolutionary propaganda take
ntrgl German soil.
~ Ne from the German intelligence
v1bs 20 Trotzky, the Commissary OF
s. kRo1u Affairs, show first that Turk
| (hSh a Russian passport was sent to
6AFosrad 70 keep watch over the Rus
fksn commander in chief. and that d
uonth sfterward. late in February, re-
sfnovei OF the commander in chief, Gen.
Bonch Bruevick. was demanded. Bruc-
wick, whose continuance in the posi-
lion was particularly no longer desir-
able" 10 the Germans, was turned out
and Gen. Parski. named by the German
intelligence service, was appointed to
command the Petrograd district.
Another note from the intelligence
ser1ce complains that the agents sent
20 Sill Gems. Kaledin, Bogaevsky and
Alexien were cowardly, non-enterpris-
ing people" This same document
shows that as long ago as December,
1917, former German prisoners Of war
were being dressed in Russian uniforms
60 Tight loyal Russian soldiers.
The significance OF the documents is
discussed in notes by Edgar Sisson, who
brought the documents out OF Russia
for the Committee on Public Informa-
ton.
Germany made its Russian peace with
its own puppet government, the mis-
named council OF Peoples Commissars,
the president Of which is Vladimir Uli-
snov tLenine), the Foreign Minister OF
which was Leon Trotzky and the Am
bessador OF which 10 Germany Is a.
Joffe. Germany made this peace harder
upon the Russian people as punishment
90 the ambition Of lis tools in seeking 70
become too powerful and in hoping for
q little while not only that Russia
would be delivered over 10 them but
shat they could double cross their mas
ters by turning a simulated German
revolution into a real one.
But their craftiness was a toy IN the
hands OF rough German force. Ger
many was actually double crossing
them by negotiating with the Ukrain-
fan Rada at the moment they dream |
ed they were tricking Germany
Germany, however. did not discard |
the Bolshevik leaders, recognizing their |
further use In the German world cam |
paign for internal disorganization In the |
nations with which Il wars. but con-
fined them TO the limited inland prov
ince which Great Russia proper has |
now become
Lenine. according 10 statements made /
public as soon as Trotzky's spectacu-
lar device OF NO peace-No war" failed.
always was for peace on any German
terms. He dominated the situation
Thereafter ana cOuctut bNtl hhllS hAdt
Germany asked Nor did Trotzky cease
to continue to obey the German orders
delivered to him both by Gen. Hoffman.
az Brest-Litovsk and at Petrograd di-
rectly by the Russian division Of the
German General STAFF. which was seated
IN Petrograd itself from November. and
which was still there in full operation
when I left. Monday, March !. the day
that Petrograd received notification that
peace had been signed at Brest-Litovsk
BY the Russian and German delega-
tions.
Trotzky, therefore. rests rightly under
the accusation Of having staged his the
atrical scene as a climax to the Russian
desired by Germany.
The actual order he gave was for the
Immediate rehabilitation Of the Rus
sian army, leaving the German army
The actual effect Of the work OF the
leaders, moreover, was to en-
able Germany to combine its former
army OF the Russian front with It's
western army FOR the launching Of its
March offensive in France. Such has
been the fruition Of Bussia's German
directed Bolshevikism.