El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-03-15
TrOt&ky Thinks
He Is Ordained
ScOurge Of God
Director Of Red Armies
Of Russia Aspires To Be
Another Ghengis Khan.
CContinued from pnEe u

hell in the legendary west. In small
bands. recruits were to be brought TO
lHarbin, thence dispatched to the
IUraIs over the Traus-Siberian. while
1.-THE world was to be kept IN ignorance,
as long as possible. OF what was hap
Ipening. through the creation OF zone
tof famine and massacre in Manchu-
[ ria. 70 the eastward OF the 'moblu-
ization area" To make this artificial
desert a revolt" Of this Chinese prov
iince from the central authority at Pc
/ kin was TO be arranged
Propaganda in Japan.
TrotzEy knew, Of course. that Japan
could not be fooled for long. and
would be bound to take a hand in the
game before his Chinese armies could
be launched upon Europe His meas
ures to take care OF Japan were Two
fold First came propaganda Little
has been heard, thanks TO the Japa-
nese censorship. OF Bolshevik propa-
ganda IN Japan. but plenty OF 1t there
was and IS and its reaction is already
manifest in widespread industrial IN
rest and protests against apprOpria-
lions for ornaments while Trotzky
made great efforts to convince the
japanese masses that they must pre-
vent the dispatch OF troops 10 Siberia
This agitation. though concealed by
side world, has a powerful influence
in reducing TO a few brigsdes the Jap
anese forces sent TO the mainland
Secondly. there is reason TO believe,
Trotzky represented to his colleagues
that the japanese epople would be
filled with racial pride at the spectacle
of yellow men conquering the white
nations OF the west, and that by ter
ritorial brides in Manchuria, and per
haps Siberia, he could prevent effect
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rising sun. As to whether such sound
inEs we're ever made in Toxic / have
no Information. while no cause exists
to doubt the entire good faith towards
the entente at all times OF the mika-
dos statesmen
TrotEky's vision n II climbed
into the empyrean in the spring OF
1918. before the CzechO-SlOvnks
seiEed the railway and pulled him
down to earth. did not depend
upon his MOnEol million alone to
conquer the west. This force was
to be the kernel Of a mighty array
Of Russians and Germans. Russia
seemed TO present a simple prob
lem. Once get together a EuffI-
cienfly large. well disciplined.
properly armed and led yellow
force, and demObiliEed Russian
veterans By the hundred thousand
would be forced to famine, the
lznOuf and the bayOnet to fight
for the soviet. This. In fact, has
worked out according TO schedule
despite the interruption in the
flow OF Chinese recruits, and
TrOtEky's armies raised by the ter
ror have Increased from the negIi-
Chile and worthless 81. 900 men he
commanded three months after the
peace Of BreHts to n force military
men nEree Is worthy OF serious
consideration and that n yariOusly
estimated from 100000 to 100000
strong
So much for Russia, where man
power was and Is plentiful But Ger
many, too Trotzky planned to lay IN
der contribution for recruits. after
Germany's defeat at the hands OF the
allies had made possible a Spartacist Z
revolution. As this stage OF the plan
Is narrated. Il Is impossible to say
how much Is ancient history ruined
by the failure 10 get the million Chi
nese- and how much OF II IS still on
the cards today All the Informal ton
available inclines the writer to be-
lieve that Trotzky still hopes in the
not distant future to Bolshevize Ger
many and summon German science
and Industry and the veterans OF Hin
denburgs armies 20 help his Russian
masses overwhelm the rest OF the con-
tinent-
The Work in Germany.
However that may be. when the Chi
nese plot was very much alive. Trotz-
ky sent into Germany Ioffe and Radek. /
who we're initiated into all his plans.
one openly. as the first Red ambassa- B
dor TO Berlin. the other secretly. They
mad unlimited money, and their mis-
sion was 70 foment revolt. prepare
the land for the coming Of the eastern
locusts. Considerable success attended
their efforts, until shortly before the
revolution the prince Max government
summoned courage to expel the am
oassador on the pretext that incen-
diary documents were found IN trunks
forwarded from Moscow 70 the Rus
siam embassy.
spartaeans Ballz.
But IN the leaders OF the German
Spartacist movement. Karl Liehknecht
and Rosa Luxembourg Radek and Ioffe
found two fanatics who. while ready