Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-01

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ItemgA nn esiSs deal. Eney b3lfese
Ehaa taav have evnrssains % gasn ~
hls 6ata, and with them. aa hsse
/ pDantsd ont ere this. 2ha end iasti0ss
ath@ means. no matter whether the
haxsd that tired llse slaofs at Clenaszs
lcsam last weeh wap that of b Franch
Ianarchias, 0r cg b Russian BOlgheviat,
IIe viii aneusedly be found that as 81
lahe case or Beresowski's attempt On
the life Of Alexander III. Ia Pnris, the
cRima was tnstigated and engineered
Iby Germany, Who stood Ia win more
THAN any one else BY It's success.
Fortunately for the Entente Ii has
faIled Bug &c ahOnid be taken as d
warning, and even more than ordinary
procautions should from now On BE-
ladopted for tbs safety of woodrow
Wilson, Of Lloyd George. Oe Yenisslos.
loo F0ch. 81 Arthur BaleoMr and Of the
IOthar principal figures 81 the congress,
Euntil it reaches the conclusion Of is
IaboTs For just new Germany = des-
pesaGe, end not alone the political
1 Headegn Those III tha foreground as
lwail ~ those behind the scenes but
Ialso the great business interests Of
sGernany are liz = state Of mind where
lthAy Will shrink AZ nothing ii tbs.
hope Of obtaining better terms from
the Allies
How desperate they are may be
gathered from the declaration made
last week ID the Berlin Tagehlatt.'
lby tho new Ministar Of Francs.
GOshsln. wherein ne pointed out that
I'D order to pa, the interest of the "a
IGionaI debt an dthe xpenegs og the
government, aside from any question
Foe financial reparRtion to the Allies,
Ian annual sum og no less than nine
teen billion marks would be needed,
winding up with the admission that
he had mo idea how II was to be raised.
Then there Ii Alfred GutmAnn. the
president OF that great German nnan-
lciai industrial and mercantile trust
known aa the Dresdner Bank. which
lprior TO the war had 30 many inter
ests Id the United States and that still
cOntrOls vast undertakings ii South
America He has placed himself on
public record during the past week As
disposed to turn towards the BoIshe-
lvik1 III am 10 live buFdened with
such enormous taxes as To make life
itself burden, he exclaimed. then
/ prefer to turn to the Bolsheyiki The
victory Of the Allies win prove ques-
tionable one indeed. II they draw the
terms too heavy financially. have
good connections. through which 4
LEARN what the Bolsheviki want, indi-
eating that he va considering the adj
visibility OF coming 10 terms with
them.
Germany Ard The B0IsheylkL
Of course this may be taken as an
lOther piece Of TeutOn blum and as an
other attempt b play upon our aDpre-
lhensions on the subject of the Boil
shaviki But IL must be taken Til con-
junction with the tact that Germany III
undoubtedly making use of the Boil
Ishsyfki and has at various times en-
gineeTed and financed their activities,
graphically stignsaEized By Winston
ChurcAill as Foul Baboonry. No one
any longeg denies. not even III Ger
many, that tho EOlshevSki dictates Lee
nine, and n rot1ky. hare been III Teu-
ton psy and that they. III the past at
any rats, received their directions
from Berlin. And Bolshevism Ii un-
doubtsily q very serious menace,
which ON tbs wane, IN Siberia and IN
certain parts Of European Russia, is
spreading elsewhere.
10 what extent Germany is re-
sponslble for ita extension, ii Ii dIfa-
lcult I'd say But II III d fact that steps
laee being taken To propagate ii In
British India, and especially III China.
It seems that there Is q college IL
Moscow, Where BoIshevigt misaiOna-
rtea receive instruction ia Oriental
languages. and where students from
FIindustan. and from China receive In
straCti0n III the doctrines Oh Bolshe
yisEn. How much IL has caught on
among the Chinese, Is apparent from
the fact that the present military
forces DC the B0lsheviki IN Europe are
largely composed Of Chinese mer-
cenaries, who hare shown themselves
very eflcienk. commanded and trained
- they are. BY former 0iEaeers Of the
a0rlnan army
The body guards III Lenine and oE
TTctxky aro composed On gigantic
chiness. VINO have none Of the c0nn-
punctlona of western civilization. con
osrning the execution Of the Buildings
az their masters General Charles Cor
don. Of Khartoum. who commanded
the so-called Ever Victorious Army
in Chinas daring the great Taeptng re-
b@lllon. was won't I'd deciars that the
Chimes8 were capable III becoming tho
GnpgG soldiers Ii the world. IL well
trained. well paid. and possessed of
cOnAdenee ii their leaders. / haye
often had occasion to discuss the mak.
kaT VIII him ID days now long ago
before that nahnoFab Bile evening ID Jan-
uAFY, 1884. when accompanied hin