Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-09
BOSS OF THE BOLsHEVlKl
Mysterious Character Who Pulls
Wires From Switzerland.
LfSlNE IND 1RDTsKY LlEUTENANTs

Platten, a Native Of Prussia, Who
sesks the Overthrow Of Present Day
:, Civilization.
Trotzky screamed like a frightened
witch, scratched like a cat. and kicked
With all limbs, like crab. when 1 saw
eight British jackies carry him bodily
off the Kristianiafjord in the bay of
Halifax In March Of 1917.
Trot2ky enraged! We standing, on
the deck of the ship. were not great
ly moved. And as he stood below us,
on the tiny tug which. had come out
to carry him to land. waving his arms
at us, shouting OUT wild Russian curses.
we were inclined to laugh. ~
Trotzky enraged! The time was to
, come when the rage OF this wild-eyed
man would mean life and death to
thousands Of human beings. X
II. one OF US on the, Kristiania fjord
that day had drawn out revolver and
taken the life of that shouting indivi-
dual, we might have helped to save the
S lives OF perhaps two hundred and fifty
thousand Allied soldiers on, the west
ern front, who were slain in the great
drives which the Germans were able to
make after Trotsky had signed peace
with the Germans at Breast -Litoysk.
Trotzky was going to Russia under
orders From a certain man In far
away Switzerland-A-a man greater than
he,l with wilder ideas than he. with
eyes that had more steel in them than
his, and with heart that had even
less pity. If that were, possible-hau
/ come to Trotzky,, in his Ghetto home
in New York City, the message: go
tosRussia. The time has come"
6 And so, by word from the supreme
command. Trotzky was on his way.
in the meantime. Lenine. whoAe
name within few months was to
mske Russia tremble. was in the care
and keeping of this same mysterious
man. ,iTsFs
To Lenine. who was Ia switzerland'
came orders like those Witioh had gone
across the Atlantic 10 TrotzkE
.c. - r,,ss,o !, "a o;,, Srsd 5thfs 1nyster.
E.les aS il.
..,.a ~ o,av rshs aha A,,,es
: refused to permit him to pass through
). "a rn.lond slzss = 4. I.
Between Switzerland and Russia lay
o.r.nv When 4 I,eniness failed. the
,a,,, waved b,s Wind. he
aanaManed ayen the. atrbbo-n German
Ta-s,s. or,oa. voc more than that.
..as a. n..nt.n i s.a,,l, n "a douarters,
.a,.s 49,. Iaisar Won pinde nbure and
I,,soadsry so,led info one - &,s,s !,
~ ,ssa,,.,, - ',ha ca,,,,,,,, ,,s nat n
.,a,, 4.n,,a ,,s,nit ona Nrika,ai Ierifie
and h,s ,So,,nwars IN 20 through Ger
,r,anv 3,,o -.tss,sssa ,tbey would upset
pnss,, NV SECOND revolution that
,.ao,,,a ,oy hers weak and white at
oarr,any,s .faet Even the masters or
-, ,,.,a.a 20 the ars.nments of
.hat mon who conld give orders to
.o, ,,,an as Jan,ne and Trotzky.
A oar was nrepared by thef G Germans
>. hasw,ss frontier It's windows were
,aa,aa ,eo fbot tho ma assengerg Gould not
,oor Ont and discover the wsr-time Sc
erets Of. Germany. Its doors were
guarded so that no one could leave it.
That car one day in March of 1917
wbi,e Trotzkv was languishing in a
.e,, IN pta,;fax-was boarded by thirty
mon One of them was Lenine, the
.ast wera Jen,ne's followers. EXCEPT
- Tha. ona 1eas tho man who had
.~,,,o n,,a a,a Trotyty their orders
~ a.s ,S,s .t,a. ,yor,d
a. .o,n,tt +,,. puss,a
T.o,.,w rs,aosed'I co,,e ,s.ets later
:. 81 -oa,;o,t 20 xarorsLy found his
,,a,, ,o pnss;o NV wav of Janan
.h,,. +ha ,,,o ,oryorts of the
-. pais, OH, ot tho uo,r,a hepan
their work = ~
T,,s storv ,s mt fancy ISL Ae.di
There 10 q .Ro,sbev;le behind
,,,o a,,d rrot,,,y. babinS oil the
,e,.So,,,,,. .. IN .ho o.,,or ,.nds
- =, D.,. n,o..
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