Bisbee daily review., 1920-12-24
INTERNATIONAL DRIVE AGA|NST BOLSHE WIKI |S
 GERMAN $ PLAN
Former Chief of Staff Says Lenine Was Sent to Russ
 Capital By Teutons
INTERVENTION URGED
General Hoffman Says Prob lem of Reds Is Now One
 That Concerns World

BERLIN. Dec 23.-(By the As sociated Press )-Genefal Wilhelm 1 Hoffman. former chief of staff of the 1 German east army who played an i'm lportan; part in the Brest-Litoysk ne gotlations. declares in an interview published in the Berlin Russian Daily Rul. that Bolsheyism hi,. ing ceased to be regional is a world problem now which can be solved only by armed intervention by the great powers act ing in concert. An international army under the leadership Of Pershing. Joffre or Foch should OCCUPY Petro- grad. General Hoffman said. then march on Moscow. which. he asserts. F. bound to fall before any well equipped and properly officered force.
 With the occupation Of Moscow Trotzky and Lenine would be unhorScG and their 5000 commissars oyeri7irown and the members Of the whole regime. General Hoffman predicted. would ask safe conduct to pass the shortest way 10 oblivion. He feels certain that the Russian workmen would be glad to desert their present leaders at inc first indication that their overthrow was imminent.
 Moscow must be spoken 10 .u the language of Brest-Litovsk. not iu the language Of Lloyd George in London" the general continues "'ro remodel Bolshevism is impossible.
 Intervention Necessary.
 Any entente attempt to incorporate BoisneNIsm in the European concert would be wrong. Any trade relations with Russia would only furnish cloak Tor Red propaganda for BoisheVik aims will ever b, world revolution
 'TrotZky has studied the history of the French revolution and knows the use OI the scoursa. !InL.f his system no man can rise to power from the army; the appearance of a new Ma poieon m Russia k out of the question.
 The crash of the Soviet regime would inevitably be followed py reign of unparalleled anarchy The only thing that remains is armed in terEentlon by the great powers A chief Of staff of the east army during the war l directed the propaganda against the Russian army The gen eral stair naturally made use U- every possible means 10 break through the Russian front. One of these means was poison gas; another was Leuine.
 The imperial regime diSpatc ched Lenine to Russia from the Swiss iron tier in seaied car for definite pur- pose. With our consent Lenine and his friends diSOrSaniZed the Russian army. Won kuehlman. former German secretary for foreign affairs: Count Czernin. Austro-Hungarian foreign and l then closed the Brest- Litovsk treaty so that We could throw our army against the west front We were convinced that the Bolsheyiki could not hold power more than three weeks
 Plans Interrupted.
 In spite of the vmdable service Trotzky and Lenine rendered. We neither knew nor fOresaw the danger to humanity from the consequences of this journey of Bolshevists to Russia. At that time We weighed the matter with as little consideration as the en- tenre does now.
 Would the allies and especially Lloyd George carry on negotiations and make concessions if they fully reckoned the frightful danger wn.cn represents?"
 General von Hoffman says that the army commander later realized the danger and a plan was laid before the command of the eastern army for the overthrow Of Bolshevism. bur events developed so rapidly. following upon the assassination of Count von German ambassador to Rus sia, in Moscow. and the situation on he west front had become so critical that it was impossible to force the issue.