The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-16
RUSSIAN SOVIET
I THREATENS HUNS
| with new ARMY
Brest Treaty Is Being Broken,
Germany Is Warned.
Recent Protest Over Invasion
in No Uncertain Terms,
GERMANY IS GOING TOO FAR
No Attention Paid to Repeated
Protests of Russia.
Allies May Yet Have Help in
the East Again.
Recent Protest Over Invasion
in No Uncertain Terms,
GERMANY IS GOING TOO FAR
No Attention Paid to Repeated
Protests of Russia.

Washington. May ia copy of the
protest made by the Soviet govern
ment to the German ministry of for
eign affairs on April 26 against Ger
man aggressions. made public today
by the state department.. shows that
the Russians gave notice of their in
tention to mobilize -'all necessary
forces in order to secure the freedom
and independence of the Russian re-
public. which is now menaced beyond
the limits established by the Brest
treaty"
The full facts of the recent soviet
protest against German invasion of the
Ukraine, received by the state depart
ment today, revealed that Russian
threat
After reciting Ukrainian difficulty
and the Teuton operations in Finland.
the statement added:
I'm order to fulfill the Brest treaty,
which is the legal basis for the rela-
tions between Germany and Russia,
the soviet government has officially
declared its readiness to open imme-
diate negotiations with the Ukrainian
central rada
No Attention by Germany.
NO answer, however, has come
from this government, which is now
directed by Germany. The German
government, having likewise opposed
the question of peace treaty. has in
no way given any answer to all offers
to open peace negotiations.
Instead of this the advance of Ger
man Ukrainian forces against Russia
continues" kt4t
Then followed the statement as 70
mobilization
The note demands a clear and pre-
else answer as to whether GERMANY
considers the Brest treaty still in ef-
feet and upon what grounds she con-
tinues to send troops against the soviet
republic.
May Re-Enter War.
If the Soviet government is not
crushed from without, the red guard
forces now being organized by
Trotzky may get back into the war to
| the extent of keeping million Ger
man soldiers busy on the eastern front
next year. This result, however de-
pends upon the attitude of the allied
vernmcnts-particular America
toward the Soviet government. Presi-
! Intervention in Siberia has produced a
distinctly favorable result in Russia
The volunteers being organized by
Trotzky already number nearly 50o,-
| 900. The old Russian army is entirely
disorganized.
The Bolsheviks inherited an army
ready to go home, and only by super
human efforts were able to keep the
starving troops in the trenches for the
first month of negotiations at Brest-
L1tOvSk. When the German army
started its invasion, the old army
melted away. The ex-soldiers are now
wandering about the country. or
slowly making their way back to their
native villages to take up plots of land.
Russia Is Radical Yet.
The allied governments are hated
by the Red Guards and the Bolsheoilki
only slightly less than the German
junkerdom. The masses of Russians
are entirely opposed to war. They are,
however, equally fnflamed against the
military ambitions of Germany and
against Japan.
Russia is Socialist from top to bot
| tom. A monarchist or bourgeois re-
publican is today regarded in Russia
as an enemy of the established order.
The only considerable opposition to
1.-THE Bolshevik regime comes from the
anarchists, who declare Trotzky and
Lenine are conservatives and reaction
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