The sun., 1919-04-08
LENINE PLANS
ALLIES
He Prepares to Force War
Against All Organized
Governments.
MUNITION PLANTS BUSY
Movements Of Troops on Large
Scale Are Noticed
in Russia.
MUNITION PLANTS BUSY

WASHINGTON. April 7.-Advices re-
ceived by the State Department and
made public to-day indicate that the
Bolsheviki In Russia are at war with
the Allies and the United States, and
that Nikolai Lenine, the Bolsheviki
Premier, has prepared to press an Of
fensive until success or failure against
organized government results.
The advices say that Lenine is plan
ming to use all the food and supplies
he can get to strengthen this new
campaign, which will be In full swing
this spring. Peuograd reports are
that troop transportation on a large
scale, preparatory to the offensive. al
ready has been started.
Important in connection with the
Information of the State Department
Is the news contained in Russian press
dispatches that the Soviet Govern
ment is taking extraordinary measures
to increase the capacity Of the ammu-
milton factories. This was taken here
as added confirmation that Lenine is
determined upon war and Is taking
advance measures to make It as efYec-
tive as possible.
Food situation Desperate.
The State Department announcement
In the form of a summary of press re-
ports cabled via Official channels to
Washington. follows:
"A press report from Petrograd says
that Lenine in a characteristic speech
admitted the desperateness of the food
situation In Petroerad. 1t stated that
only short time ago the Soviet had
hoped to get large amount Of aid
from the Ukraine, and that he had inn
plored the Ukraine Soviet 70 send 5o,-
ton at Petrograd and Moscow, but that
railway conditions had hampered trans
portation OF these supplies and that the
Communists forces in the Ukraine were
too insufficiently organized to take wheat
from peasants who resisted delivering
their wheat over to the Communists.
'Lenine says that half OF the 50,ooe,-
900 pounds would help IL more was i'm
possible TO get, but that even this half
quantity was doubtful.
Puts Blame on Soviet Enemies.
"Lenine declares that peasants were
mere playthings in the hands of the
enemies of the Soviet, and that these
enemies were trying to starve the Soviet.
He said that passenger raffic had 10
be suspended during the middle OF Marcl,
an ne ~ vote nf IL
and that all trains were adapted "a
transportation OF supplies.
"A Petrograd press report received
In Helsingfors says that the suspen sion
Of railway traffic In Russia was not
due to economic reasons only. but pri-
marily to military steps. because troop
transportation on a large scale was being
planned for an offensive in the spring
1t states that extraordinary measures
were taken by the Soviet Government
to increase the capacity OF the present
gun ammunition factories, those refus-
Ing work being threatened with loss of
food and even death.
Another HelsinSfors despatch saw
the authorities have been notified that
Bolshevik agitation has been carried
on In Helsingfors for some time among
military workers and railway employees
with view TO paving the way for an
other revolution. All sorts OF advan.
tages were promised. Money was prom
ised Danish volunteers who arrived
here II they would abandon their in
tention of going to Esthonia and would
return TO their homes on errands for
the Bolshevikl.
"A Moscow newspaper reports that
the Soviet government has instituted
three camps for counter-revolutionar y
war prisoners-two IN Courland and one
in