Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-24

unfortunately not its place to follow
up the matter further.
l myself again called the attehtioI
of the imperial chancellor. the fof-
eign office. and also the office of the
interior to the revolutionary activities
of the Russian embassy in Berlin,
with it's numerous personnel and its
connection with the Independent social
democracy, as we'll as to the reyoiu-
tionary tendency of the latter. Moth
ing was effected.
Shock People and Army.
When ] again pointed out to the
foreign office the work of Herr Jotfee
| and the dangers of his stay in Herlh
| was answered that he was better
taken care OF in Berlin than else
where. There he was under their eyes.
But a'as. these eyes We're blind.
AS long as Germany showed herself
| comnlaisant to Bolshevism. Herr
Joffee was able to shake the war Ell.
ficiencv of the German people in
way that the entente, in spite OF block
AIDE and propaganda, could never
have done.
with this object in view he placed
rich materials at the disposal OF the
subversive elements in our land me
full extent of his revolutionary actlVi-
ties was of course apparent only at
later date. In Magdeburg the leaoer
of the independent social democrats
Water sad: -,
eSince January rs. 1918. we have
Systematically prepared the revolu-
ton. We have melted our people,
who were going to the front, to desert
the flag. These deserters we nave
organized. supplied with flase papers
with money and unsigned pamphlets
, We sent these men in every direction
especially again to the front. In ordei
that they might work among the sol
diers there and undermine the front
They have induced the soldiers te
surrender and so have brought abou
: a gradual but sure decay"
Silently and IneXorabiy.
Side by side with this went th'
c revolutionary and BolsheVik intlu
4 ence of the men on leave. The rank
c est propaganda was worked in rail
way trains. The soldiers VINO Wer'
8 going on leave We're moved not to re
n turn to the front; those who were OF
: their way to the front We're appeale'
a to to assume a passive attitude or t
desert the flag and to mutiny, Apou
, the end of June and the beginning 0
,nIlv there was much that was still In
visible but silently, inexorably, WORK
ing. =,
whether one was inclined to IN
left peoples party, to the socialist 0
y the Bolsheviks there was commo
70 endeayor to undermine authority 10
y years this had been preparing. NOW
" in the time of the states need. thi
. came UP to the surface.
| will not speak of the ambition
!, members who now robbed our wea
u government of the last vestige of re
spect. nor even of how from ever
u side there were those who endeavore
TO shake my position and trust be
cause / represented the support
s. authority; | am the enemy only {
" the organized work against the arm
: officers.
: That was a crime on the part
= the democratic party and the me
N jority socialistic party; no. It was,
y use the words of Tallyrand. wors
than that-it was a blunder--a blunt
lie err of such colossal weight and shor
" sightedness that nothing can hus
ID it up.
lie Officers Not Aristocratic.
he Instead of seeing in the officer II
II representative of governmental orde
| lildtN SEE III llllti uVbhihS NbN NiiN
er sentative of "militiarism," without b.
Ia ing clear as to what the officer real
ea had to do with the complaints Thu
~ they felt called upon to make. Ever!
az thing was so senseless.
l. CUR officers corps had never playe
Ia politics; it had long lost in the war
10 exclusiveness, which before the W.
ed had been considered a worthy THU
IS to preserve 1t was recruited fro
as all classes and all parties: every OF
10 might become an officer.
I'D In many ways it was alas. no lon
err the old officers corps. Certa
III improprieties were to he blamed upt
a the strange elements. the lowering
pe our national morale, and the inexpe
ISL fence of many officers who had ris
q to their grades-too soon, only becau
IS the loss of officers had been so u
ne usually high on the battlefield.
an The time will come when the ey
at of the eredulous German people W
be opened to these conditions, but al
to it's own thanklessness and to
ut own serious crime against this ord'
en- and therefore against the army, fat
m erland and itself May it then pi
ed out the guilty ones.
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in cate. Copyrighted. 1919. by Harp
leri