Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-09-18

lilC1lts,
COMMUNICATIONS written in JAM
uary disclose that the bolsheviki
were ft&y 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 Germany was dispos-
ing of their hopes to see their revo-
lutionary propaganda take root on
German soil
Turk Watches Russians.
Notes from the German intelli-
gence service to Trotzky, the COM
n,issar of foreign affairs, show first
that a Turk with a Russian passport
was sent to Petrograd to keep
watch over the Russian commander
in-chief, and that month after
ward, late in February, removal OF
the commander -in-chief. General
Bonch Brueyick, was demanded.
Bruevick whose continuance in the
position was particularly no longer
desirable" to the Germans, was
turned out and General Parski,
named by the German intelligence
service, complains that "the agents
sent to kill Generals Kaledine,
Bogaevski and Alexieff, were cow
ardly. non-enterprisins people"
This same document shows that
as long ago'as December, 1917, tor
mer German prisoners OF war were
being dressed in Russian uniforms
to fight loyal Russian soldiers.
The significance of the docu-
ments is discussed in notes by
documents out of Russia for the
committee on public information.
Germany made its Russian peace
with its own puppet government. the
misnamed council OF Peoples COM
missars, the president of which is
Vladimir Ulianov (Lenin), the for
eign minister of which was Leon
Trotsky, and the ambassador OF
which to Germany is A. Joffe. Ger
many made this peace harder upon
the Russian people as punishment
to the ambition of its tools in seek
ing to become too powerful and IN
hoping for little while not only
that Russia would be delivered
over to them, but that they could
double-cross their masters by turn
ing a simulated German revolution
into real one.
But their craftineSs was a toy in
the hands of rough German force.
Germany was actually double-cross-
ing BY negotiating with the Ukrain-
ian Rada at the moment they dream
ed they were tricking Germany.
Germany, however, did not dis
card the bolshevik leaders, recog-
nizing their further use in the Ger
man world campaign for internal
Reorganization in the nation with
which it wars, but confined them to
the limited inland province which
Great Russia proper has now be-
come.
Russia Betrayed.
Lenin, according to statements
made public as soon as Trotsky's
spectacular device of mo peace
No war" failed, always was for peace
on any German terms. He domi-
mated the situation thereafter and
conceded everything that Germany
asked. Nor did Trotsky 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 operation when | left,
Monday, March 4, the day that Pet
rograd received notification that
peace had been signed at Brest-
Litovsk by the Russian and German
delegations.
Trotsky, therefore, tests rightly
under the accusation of having
staged his theatrical scene as eli
max to the Russian disorganiza-
ton desired by Germany. The
actual order he gave was for the
immediate rehabilitation of the
Russian army, leaving the German
army unopposed.
The actual effect of the work. of
the bolshevik leaders, moreover, was
to enable Germany to combine its
former 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 boil
shevikism.
The following. documents tell the
story of the betrayal of Russia to
shameful and ruinous peace:
Document No. 81.
(Gr. General Staff. Central Division. No
75S, Nov. l, 1919
To the Council of Peoples Com
missars: In accordance with an in
qury from the German general
headquarters | have the honor to
request you to inform me at the
earliest possible moment the exact
quantity OF ammunition at the fol-
lowing places: Petrograd, Arch
angel, kazan, Tifis.
You must also state the quantity
ard storage place OF the supplies
which have been received from
America, England and France, and
also the units which are keeping
Guard over the military stores
lead OF Department, O. Rausch;