The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-06-14
The
New Power in
the Ukraine
4,
BY GIDEON HOB
OF The T1gAontes

Republic of the Ukraine is merely
mask for actual German control an
exploitation of that country is born
out by many facts coming to light. /
Is only what one might expect, judgin;
by our knowledge of German method
as revealed in the last few years
methods which, as we now realize
have been religiously followed by gen
erations Of Germans in their set pur
pose of pillaging the world.
Among the most powerful and In
| cessantly active organizations for car
| rying out these schemes of the robbel
| Teutons have been the German steam
| ship companies with their agencies al
over the world. Their malign intrigues
have been INSCRIPTIONS, tireless and
| backed by unlimited means placed al
their disposal by Berlin. That all Eu.
| ropean nations have known of these
plots, or at least have suffered from
them, is now. beyond question. That
we in America have been the foolish
dupes of these cunning thieves, many
people are still too simple to credit.
A forceful presentation of the case
against the German steamship COM
panies, and the whole German system
Of espionage, propaganda and deliber-
ate intrigue is made by Theodore
Kahn of Lemberg. Mr.. Kahn shows
that the German steamship organiza-
ton has been from its very beginning
part of the German military machine.
at has shaped ITSELF" he says, sin
the different countries and conspired
slowly and for some decades in silence
and secrecy, employing for it's purpose
In every country the most monumental
lntriguers Of a particularly heinous
type. The offices Of the German steam
ship companies were centers Of the
German espionage system. The agents
Of the German lines were
drilled and directed from a military
establishment controlled by an fire.
sponsible government.
Their meshes of imperial propa-
ganda and subsidies spread to all coun-
tries. Many of the dupes of their ac-
tivities regarded the news set af1oat
by them as gospel truth. The agencies
of these companies were an important
part of the German spy system, whose
activities were classified under various
heads; military, naval, diplomatic,
and agents provacateurs.
In the Offices of Balm and Heinecken
nearly every plot for German expan-
sion has been Matched.
"Afany of the different patriotic ma
tionnl religious and commercial socie- |
ties, naval leagues, leagues of Truth, |
bowling clubs, singing societies, ETC., |
Galicia, Bukowina and Eu- |
ropean Russia, have been secret of |
fees of the German Steamship COM |
oanies where propaganda was carried |
IN under the protection of national |
aw with the intention to influence law
makers and rulers.
"An important factor in the league
If these societies were the many Aus
rian army officers who have been sta
Toned in the border towns of Galicia |,
md the Bukowina. The greater part
# Austrian army officers are burdened
With heavy debts. Many of the gar
isons situated on the borders of Aus
ria and Russia have been "Strafgar-
isonen" punishment garrisons)
vhere officers whose pay has been con-
seated have been sent. Therefore 1t
) not surprising that they have been
asily Influenced by the sound of gold.
hey have secretly acted as agents for
he German steamship companies.
'hese army officers as well as officials
the Austrian government, pro-
assors, school teachers, ETC., worked
nd intrigued together wherever they
ould."
The activities of these devotees and
srvants Of kaiserism have been many
nd varied, but always with the one
nd in view.
sit was the task of these votaries to
repare calmly and methodically the
1pulation for any plan Matched in the
ar ministry, to influence and sIacken
~ vigilance directed against German
terests, TO safeguard German monopo-
IS in foreign countries, to sign 'Au-
oritative Opinions when needed.
uelI dCllflllCS 1nCluucQ--lO start anu j
aintain the necessary crusade when E
er required by their paymasters, to b
ouse enthusiasm for war In one coun- q
v, to preach peace and good faith in II
lother, to weave new intrigues, to n
ace Interpolation in foreign parlia- Ii
ents, to see to publication of memo h
ndums, to address applications and p
titions to the authorities, to invent e
anderous and malicious tales, to cir al
late and hold discussions in public,
foster strikes, to inf1ame through II
blications and newspapers the public II
nd. And through this system they W
the public In a direction m
sired, placing perpetual screen be-
re the people and reality" til
It is interesting to note in connection to
th Germany's wall for freedom of "
J seas, that since German confedera- of
n no foreign vessels have been adj hi
tied to German ports except under Oh
ratious restrictions, and that Ger so
n steamship companies have always II
,vented the working of other lines in 70
1tinental Europe. SO far as they al
lid. Third-class passengers. for In co