The Washington herald., 1918-07-11
: 3s:-Litovsk Pact Nullifed
in Germans View by As
sassination Of Mirbach.
Kaiser Will Throw Army
Of 100000 in Scale.

London. July 1o.-who wins Rus
sia wins the war.
The assassination of Count Won
, Mirbach. German mbasador to the
Bolsheviki, affording the Germans
an excuse for renewing the conquest
of Russia. has brought the allies
face to face with this great truth.
Russia is on the eve of its most
tremendous disaster-more menac-
ing from the viewpoint of the en-
tente than the fall Of the car or the
lascendency of the Bolsheviki. That
disaster is the occupation by the
! Germans of the greater portion of
European Russia.
The BrestLitovsk peace treaty
is about to become in fact what 1T
| always was in theory mere
scrap of paper"
The Kaiser is preparing to throw
an army into Russia to seize by
force of arms what he now controls
by diplomatic action-complete au
thority over the stricken people.
Will Cause Allies to Act.
II he succeeds. his success will
constitute a world menace for years,
before and after the war ends.
The great question now is. will the
entente permit him to succeed?
President Wilson and the allied war
council have agreed that some action
must be taken in Russia to cope with
the German menace. Now that
| menace has crystallized into a direct
threat by the Kaiser to take Petro-
grad and Moscow, it is likely that the
! allies will strain every nerve to get
an army into Russia at once to fight
| the Huns.
1t can be thrown in from two sides
the far northwestern coast. where
| there already is a small force Of
] American, French and British ma
rines, and the eastern coast, where
| Japanese and American marines have
been landed at Vladivostok.
Awaits Wilson's Word.
Japan is said to be waiting only for
| President Wilson to say the word be-
fore landing an immense army at
! Vladivostok to proceed alon gthe
Trans-Siberian railway into the heart
of Siberia. This force, in conjunction
with the Czecho-Slovak army now
operating at various points in Siberia.
would be the nucleus of vast Anglo
| American-Japanese army, which
could keep Siberia, at least, out of
the hands of the Huns.
national pastime as nonessential
Griffith clan that means the Ma
All the way from Lewiston, Me-,
knife, is lowering all around to-
Will be hastened in handing down
1t Is believed in London that Presi-
dent Wilson will now give his con-
sent to the Japanese campaign in
view of the immediate peril of a Ger
man invasion of Russia.
On the other side of Russia another
front will probably be established, ex-
tending from Kola, on the Arctic
coast south to Petrograd and event.
ually to Moscow.
To fight the Germans on this front
n big army will have to be landed,
for it is here that the German mem
ace Is greatest.
100000 Huns Ready.
The Teutons are rapidly mobilizing
a huge force about 800 miles west of
MOSCOW, according to latest authenti-
Gated reports, and this force will
march into Ruscsia in conjunction
with another great army which will
advance from Finland along the MUIR
man railway and attack Petrograd.
germany. foreseeing a year ago
that an army would some day come
in handy on the Russian front. ,has $
kept about thirty-fiye divisions or
nearly 100000 men. in Russian Po-
land ready for such an emergency
Another army of from 10000 to co.
900 men has been sent to Finland.
A third large army is in the Ukra-
inc. Thus the Kaiser has an army
of nearly 100000 men ready to
strike.
This emphasizes the need for nj
mediate action on the part Of the
allies. Unless aggressive measure s
are adopted without loss of time
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