Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-06

RUSSIAN CONQUEST is
PLANNED BY GERMANS
Three Armies Are Receiving
Recruits and Ammunition
From HunIand Waiting for
Time to Grab Country,
by Arno Dosch-Fleurot.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish-
ing Co
(The New York World.)

ing Co
(The New York WORLDLY
Wilma, oct. This city. which
fundamentally is neither Polish nor
Russian, and, has retained Just
enough of its original Lithuanian
character to be useful. is the listening
post for all this troubled and con-
fused frontier, 1t has mass Of
strange and interesting things to re-
count Some OF those things the Amer
lean people have decided are none OF,
their business; but Just let them lis
tea a moment and they may no longer
be SO sure.
Ii tells, for one thing, how Germany
is plJnning the conquest of Russia.
II tells how Germany sees before it
opportunities OF empire that were be-
yond its widest dreams when 1t start
ed the war. Ii tells of German leaders
by the score each with large arm
ed following, nominally, perhaps act
uaily, Independent of the Berlin gov
ernment, but who are carrying on as
they are because they are Germans,
and are doing what they are doing for
the glory of Germany.
"Pasha" Won der Goltz.
1t tells of the old Pasha," General
Won der Goltz leaving Mitau, saying,
what can / do? The Germans who
are in arms east of East Prussia re-
fuse to come back when | tell tn II
to-" And it tells of an army of 1000
Germans sitting back inside the
border. waiting
Are those 10000 Germans a nu-
cleus? Are they the center about
iph all ga f,nI I1t.1tu Ia
is gathering? Are they waiting for
that long scattered, ragged army of
General Yudenitch to get into even
worse straits than we have left it in,
and when it is given an unexpected
(perhaps not even q very hard) blow
by the red army. to come TO its
rescue?
A big game is being played up here,
a foxy game. | have long known it
and this is not the first time l have
written about it. But | have never
before had so advantageous listen
mg-post.
1t is situation the American peo-
pie cannot neglect 1t only needs an
Intelligent hearing. 1t does not re-
quire the sending of one American
soldier, hardly the spending of an
American dollar, but the failure to
use the all-powerful American influ-
ence In this part of the world may
end by getting America into another
war.
The right kind of action immedi-
ately may prevent it, Now the situa-
ton is plastic. but it is hardening
rapidly and, once hardened, the Baltic
is going to be much more troublesome
and dangerous than the Balkan situ-
alton was for thirty years. II the
Balkan troubles could throw Europe
into war. the Baltic will strain the
league of nations to prevent it.
To get any understanding at all of
what is going on up here one must
recall the so-called German intrigue
at the Russian court which we heard
so much about during the early part
of the war. For broadly speaking.
the same intrigue by the same people,
or the same type of people, being
carried on today.
The German intrigue at Tsarsk1e
Selo was real The Germans hoped tu
break up the Russian empire from
the top. They had succeeded over
period of years in getting Baltic
barons of German blood into positions
of power and control. Some were at
the imperial ear; others. even more
useful to the Germans. were in con-
trolling positions in ministries where
they could delay or sidetrack ship
ments of arms and ammunition to the
army. They could not always block
things, because the Russians some-
times circumvented them But they
seriously with the efficiency
and success of the Russian army
The most intelligent opponents of
this intrigue were the duma leaders
and the organizers of the Zemstvo
committees. They ended also by win
ming against those dark forces" of
German origin when they forced out
the head of the German intrigue,
Premier Sturmer.
After Sturmer. Lenine.
1t is interesting to note now in tho
light of present knowledge that the
Germans confined their insidious ef-
forts to this court intrigue until Stur-
mer fell, in November, 1916. they
knew the court intrigue had failed.
and by December German agents were
again renewing relationships with
Lenine, svertloff. zinovieff and all
that tribe with whom they had for
merly had dealings. They lost no
time. Finding their effort lost at the
top, they oriented themselves rapidly
'lilh SCI W Npih at tllt UOllOII.
The Germans had always been
rather niggardly with Lenine up to
this time; usually they gave him no
money but furnished him only with
paper and INK for his pamphlets,
which they helped him shove through
switzerland into Russia Now they
began playing him hard even taking
the brazen step of sending him and
his tribe across Germany. To a great
many people who ought to know bet
ter Lenine is sort of hero now and
mention of his dishonorable origin Is
unpopular. But to that small group
of super-keen German intriguers who
developed the intrigue in the Russian
court; and followed that with an in
trigue in the Russian masses. Lenine
Is just one of their creatures. That
he has since defied them and carried
on by himself does not move hair on
their closely cropped heads. It's a