Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-26

him in order to prevent his joining
the entente,
The situation was complicated in
so far that / could not make any diff
culties for the hevistically in
cined policy of the government and
that Krasnoff looked upon the Soviet
government, and not the entente, as
his foe. Nevertheless. it was possible
to keep him from taking any open
stand in favor of the entente, and to
win him in a measure as a conteder-
ate. If we decided to fight Moscow
then he would openly come out on
our side.
In the wide. fruitful steppes of the
district of Kuban. between the Don
Cossacks and the Caucasus mountains,
General AleXeieff, with his volunteer
army, was fighting against the Boil
sheVik troops He was acting under
English influence. But / believe that
he was so good a Russian that he too
would hav'' jdlhed us If we had fought
the Soviet cove rnment.
Soon Annihilatcd Bolshcviks.
| The Bolsheviks for the time being
were in the ascendency. In the begin
ming of June. although the Moscow
! government could not go far enough
in its assurances of peace, they landed
a few thousand men from the south
western Azof district over the Sea of
| Azof at Taganrof Here they were
soon annihilated by German troops.
! In Novorossisk were still the REM
, nants of the Russian ships which had
escaped from Sebastoool. Our mill
tary right and the laws of necessity
required us to demand or enforce their
return from there. In this, too, the
| foreign office in consideration for the
Soviet government, delayed negotia-
tons, although no better proof could
have been shown of its unfriendly at
titude, at least, of it's inability to pre-
vent unfriendly actions of its troops
than the landing at Taganrof.
At length the Soviet government
agreed to the return of the ships to
Sebastopol, Only portion of them
arrived; the majority of them were
sunk by the Bolsheviks, influenced
after all by a nationalfeeling, In the
harbor of Novorossiisk We had stip-
ulated with the Soviet government to
make Use OF the ships during the wal
as much as the military situation
should require. We have had no use
OF them.
NV Thoughts and Actions.
AS regards Great Russian. our pol
ICY as carried out by Ministerial Di-
rector Kreig, worked directly in favor
of the Bolshevists. There is no doubt
that right through the summer 1t pre-
vented us from forming new mill
tary front. This | recognized. On
general grounds | held such a policy
to be short-sighted. as it was bound
in the long run to strengthen the
whole Bolshevist movement.
/ That could only do us harm; and
regarded It as the duty of our govern
ment to guard against such an event
uality not only on military grounds
but also. and indeed more urgently
from the purely political point of view
DR.. Helfferich regarded this as quite
possible The position of the govern
lment was certainly difficult, but they
Ihad only themselves to thank for 1t
lThev assured me that their policy re-
Elected public opinion in Germany.
Here, again. I was compelled to be-
lieve that consideration for tenden-
clos of internal politics was impending
1.-The effective prosecution of the war
AS for CIR military position, we could
easily have made a rapid attack or