The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-03-12
Cerman-Russian Plot
To Overwhelm Poland

Geneva, March 8.-Further sensa-
tional revelations in connection with
Kurt Eisner's declaration at Berne
short time before his death that the
German General Staff was still Sc
cretly maintaining relations with
Lenine's Government are foreshad
owed by the announcement that the
American Secret Service has discoy-
cred the existence of a German-Bol-
shevist plot against the Entente.
1t is still impossible to disclose all
the details of this new conspiracy,
which once more reveals the duplici-
ty of the Germans, but from the in
form alton received here it appears
that secret agreement was conclud-
ed several months ago between the
German General Staff, represented
by Field Marshal Won Hindenburg,
and the Soviet rulers in Moscow, by
the terms of which the Bolsheviki
engaged to undertake vigorous Of
fensive against Poland early in the
Spring. The Germans undertook to
attack the Poles simultaneously, and
actually launched their offensive sew
eral weeks ago. but their plans were
frustrated by the energetic interven-
ton of the Allies, which caused
storm of disappointed fury in Ger
many.
By letting loose the Bolsheviki
against the Poles, the German Cen
eral Staff hoped, in the first place, to
keep Posen in the German Empire.
1t calculated, further. that the mill
tary operations would revive the
! fighting spirit of the Germans and
promote recruiting for the German
| Army.
Finally, it was expected that the
| menace of the Bolshevist invasion
| would intimidate the Allies and in
| fluence them to grant to Germany
easier terms and send her food and
| raw materials.
The recent declarations of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg and Cen
eral Groner planting IN VIVID rofors
the danger of a Bolshevist invasion
of Europe, and exhorting the Entente
to join forces with Germany against
the Bolsheviki, form a part of this
plot of intimidation. The publica-
ton of Hindenburg's and Groner's
statements in the official Deutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung and the Essen
organ of the great steel and iron in
dustry, the Rheinisch Westfalische
Zeitung, shows that the Weilnar Gov
eminent and the German industrial
leaders are a party to the intrigues
of the General Staff.
| The Rheinisch Westfalische Zeit-
ung's concern about the Bolshevist
| danger is particularly ptquant In
| view of the fact, which I learn from
an absolutely reliable source, that
the iron and steel crowd recently es-
| tablished a special bureau at Stuff
CART for Bolsheyist propaganda in the
Entente countries. From this office,
which is situated in the Lorenzplatz,
that city, Bolshevist pamphlets and
leaflets are sent out by the thou
sands. and agents are dispatched in
to neutral countries with orders to
get in touch with foreign anarchists.
Large amounts of money are will
ingly supplied for this propaganda
by the iron and steel organization.
Rumors about this propaganda and
the great results expected from it
are so widely current in Germany to-
day among all classes of the popula-
ton that one continually hears the
Germans declare confidently that Gin
year Bolshevism will have avenged
us and annulled the Infamous treaty
which the Entente dreams of impos-
ing on us"