Evening star., 1920-01-11

ooS anu W NCuoilS udy ltlteI. IL SenO
the postal order for your hat and silk
stockings and gloves along with this
M, dear. how / shall think of you
ION the 26th and 2Sth-or is it 31st by
now? 1 wonder whether you will
feel me near you-I shall dedicate
these two days to my Molly.
Just fancy Molly, they've made me
STAFF officer tacting)! I shall break
out in red tabs all over-that is, if
can get any. Would you draw on
Cox and stagger round to the Army
and Navy, and buy me- red hatband
and one pair staff officers gorget
patches (red)? S-staff officers g-hor-
get patches-and two little buttons?
They'll take two months to reach me,
Molly. but then we'll astonish the ma
tives.
And-Tm going to another army
An army of umpty-thousand Cossacks.
all irregular cavalry, splendid wild
men, easily the most interesting-in
fact, rather exciting-crowd, and any
amount of scope. and any amount of
work to do. They make wild cavalry
raids of hundreds of miles.
Do you remember my saying / Won
der whether I'd have chance of get
ting 1ongside some Cossacks? And
now I'm going to the one Cossack
army of the four.
So TIL write to you once more be-
fore I go. and 1 do hope I'll get an
other mail before I start, for it's
n,onth from here to them and COM
mu-ication by courier only
Now. dearestest, to the serious part
OF MY letter.
Asks Wife to Help Every Day.
want you to do war work. WAR
work. I want you to spend one hour
or, il you ca1not, only half an hour.
daily in doing the bolshevist HARM
With your typewriter. In thought.
word and deed l want you to put
heart and soul into helping Gen.
penikin and his cause. For if ever
there was a crusade, it is this. l
shall put my heart and soul into
helping to organize and supply in
my area. into creating good feeling
and moral values. into actual fighting.
and into collecting and forwarding to
you such Information and photos as
hope will set England blazing with
indignation and disgust. Both in the
rough and in the letters to Cousin
Mssterton. And much that is un-
printable. but must be known.
1t all goes home officially and gets
held up-somewhere.
And / hope and pray that 1 shall
rouse you, and all our friends. to
this crusade and holy hatred for the
boisaevis that you will do every
thing in your power to enlighten peo-
pie at home.
Germans subtle Methods.
To start with I want to give you a
few points on the situation:
1. The boche is still fighting us
through the bolshevist, but in a subtle
way. and by UNDERGROUND means
which ii is hard to counter.
The Germans, in the beginning OF
the war, hoped to be at Paris in three
months. Detached forces were to
drive the contemplate Cor contemptl-
bly,. what does it matter?1 little
army into the sea. They then intend
ed to turn on Russia, to defeat her
reconstitute her as a vassal state
firmly allied and bound over to Ger
many to organize and utilize her vasi
resources of men and material as Q
/, means of ruling the world. =
/ They did not succeed in breaking
the French or us in a short time
They thereupon used every means o1
peaceful penetration in Russia anc
had prepared to paralyze RUSSIA eI
forts as an effective member OF the
alliance They worked through spies
agents making propaganda, the many
German bankers. etc, who had al.
ways been German agents, and some
unfortunately corruptible Russians
That devil Rasputin was in their pay
but arrangements for his death
merely as getting too big Tor MS
boots. were being made by them wher
he was killed fortuitously. but toe
late for Russia.
Al the same time they made every
effort. unfortunately with the great
est success. of discrediting the czaI
and imperial family in allied coun-
tries.
Helped to Bring Revolution.
When 1t was seen that Russia could
not be got out of the war under the
ancien regime, they helped TO Drlne
about the revolution
When il appeared that kerensky, q
fool but not altogether knave, and
his government intended to continue
the war, they redoubled their efforts
to undermine the army and navy
have described some of the means
they used often to you.
They succeeded.
They sent Lenin to Russia" tvide
LudendorD, organized bolshevism
gained a footing in the Ukraine, com
menced exploiting the resources OF
Russia and were contemplating the
raising of Russian troops for use or
the western front.
Since the armistice they have not
lost hope or interest in Russia. They
continue to organize bolshevism anC
bolshevist propaganda in allied coun-
tries. They hate Denikine and op-
pose him, because Denikine is fighting
for a united Russia. free from Ger
man influence and exploitation.
Bolshevist Russia is channel Of
communication to the committee o
union and progress 10 Egypt. India
and Afghanistan.
> Unless beaten by us, the boil
shies will beat us. It's a side issue
for the present, but the danger o.
their rousing and letting loose the
Chinese is not so very remote.
8. They have declared war on Chris
tianity. The Bible to them is
nter-revolutionary' book, and t.
be stamped out.
F., They are aiming at raising all non
Christian races against the Christian
countries.
The bolshevists form about 5 pc
cent of the population of Russia
Jews $50 to 30 per cent of the com
rnissaries are Jews), Chinese, Let's
Germans and certain of the "skille,
labor" artisans. The conscribed peas
antry. originally captured by tn
catchwords mentioned in the pam
phlets, now often goaded beyond en-
durance. is rising against them owe
wide districts. Still conscribed an
put up to fight under severe penalties
they form most of the cannon fod
der" used by the bolshies.
They desert, often en- masse, an,
1rany a peasant who marched for tn