The Washington herald., 1919-03-16

piicated, but 1t was given to a similar
band of home-sick Bohemians quart
cred In kiev In the year of the worlds
fate 1918 to begin their wonderful Odys-
sey to the Pacific. and incidentally to
wreck for the time and perhaps for all
time, though these devoted Czecho-
Slovaks did not know It then, the Boil
shevik war lords plan to draw his yell
low myriads westwards along the
Trans-Siberian railway When the
Czecho-Siovaks occupied part OF the
railway. Trotsky's plan was held up;
when the allies tardily sent troops into
Nladivostock. his purposed concentra-
ton of his mercenaries. iniamed by
promises of loss and rapine, at Hardin
in Manchuria, was made impossible
Before the great trek of the Czecho-
Slovaks, whose rifles Trotsky now
bittexly laments he had forgotten to
remove, the first Chinese and Mongol
volunteers had already reached the
Eastern frontiers of the Bolshevik
power, and it As these Oriental cut
throats who form the nucleus OF the
otherwise almost worthless Red ar
mics of today. When Red Guards 60
into battle, behind them are placed
Trotsky's faithful yellow hirelings
with machine guns, and it Is inma-
terial to Asiatics who never heard
either OF capitalists or proletariats
whether the foreign devils they shoot
down are the fleeing comrades" or
the counter revolutionary and i'm
perialist" enemies of their Soviet die
tators.
Demand Victims Daily.
The advance guard OF the Chinese
host that was to be is used for more
siniste. purposes than to shoot DE
serters; these yellow fiends are the
executioners for the Terrorists; sto~
ries that chill the heart travel IN
whispers throughout the covering
millions of Russia; it is told how
the blood-lust of the Oriental has
been so aroused that certain bands
OF Monsol guards demand a batch
of prisoners to murder every day,
and threaten mutiny II they do not
get them, and still more terrible
things are said OF the fate of wom-
en- at their hands, and how the ge-
MUS OF the East for torture is ex-
emplified when cultured and refined
white enemies OF the people" die
in agony under the death OF a thou
sand slices"
But to return to Trotsky's plot to use
Asia to conquer Europe. 1t has been
said that the original plan to use
yellow troops was German. Full de-
tails Of this scheme, attributed by al
lied intelligence investigators to
Budendorff. will be found in the safes
of the stan at Berlin. though 1t is
not likely to be published by the
A1R
Tossing philanthropy and brotherly
love at Weimar.
The German General Staff plan was
formulated after the debacle of
Kerensky's armies, while Gen. Hofr-
mann and his diplomatic rubber
stamps were negotiating the treaty of
Brest Litovsk. The Germans had
no intention OF using yellow men on
the West front, but they tried to
interest Trotsky in a proposal to per-
nit them to raise and arm huge
Oriental armies to repeat Timur's
march across the Central Asian plains
and perhaps move simultaneously by
the Caspian on Persia.
The objective was India Trotsky
listened. in December 1917, and
asked for more details. The Ger
mans brought forward complete
plans, and Trotsky listened and
went on listening. Mackensen, at
that time in apparent idleness In Ru-
mania, was interested in the
scheme, and was to lead the ORR
entail armies. Trotsky promised
earnest consideration Of the Ger
man suggestions. The crafty Boil
shevik's handling of this matter
shows clearly that he was no tool
of Berlin, that he took German
money and gave away Russian
provinces and betrayed his country
into German hands for his own pur-
poses and not the Kaiser's.
For when Trotsky got back to
Petrograd and laid the proposals
of LudendOrff before Lenine. with
detailed plans for recruiting Chi
nese. lists of officials already cor
rupted in the Celestial republic and
mobilization arrangements, what he
suggested was not what the Ger
mans wanted. not a march on India.
Planned Western Onsiaught.
He told his colleague. who alone
seems to have been trusted with the