Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-16
WORLD CONQUEST,
PLAN OF SOV|ETS
Expect to Fight U. S. After
France and England Are
Beaten In Turn
SEEKING GERMAN ALLIANCE
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Kolno. Poland (by courier to East
Prussia), Aug. 14.-Soviet Russia in
tends to seek an alliance with Germany
| TO make war on France. and If this Is
successful. to undertake a conquest Of
England and eventually America. Of
fcials of the Bolshevist regime told the
Associated Press today.
As soon as the Polish war, which Is
considered a purely Russian business.
has been finished. a note will BE- sent
to Berlin, they declared demanding
permission to transport troops across
Germany for the French campaign.
Upon refusal Of this request. which is
taken for granted, a revolution will be
instituted in Germany. the success Of
| which the Bolshevists asserted they were
prepared to assure by force Of arms.
With these ends in view. the Rus
sian soldiers. who have been told all
wars shall cease with ultimate victory
| over the Poles, are being subjected to
vigorous propaganda which declares
that Frenchmen will be shot on sight.
but that the Germans are friends who
| soon will become comrades of the Boil
shevists.
These admissions have been corrobo-
! rated by information gathered by the
correspondent in conversations with
German representatives of East Prus-
sian newspapers. who had interviews
with the Bolshevist army chiefs at the
front.
Intend 10 Control Poland.
The Bolshevist leaders declare that
| within three weeks they will be in com
| plete control of Poland. including the
| Polish corridor, which they intend to
occupy. leaving six-mile neutral zone
about Danzig
When the correspondent reached here
| after surreptitiously crossing the border
at Czerwone. and employing the aid of
Poles and farm wagon filled with
straw. he called on the Polish Soviet
commissary. who recently was estab-
lishcd in office by the Bolshcvist mill
tary. Hans Scharnewsky. the COM
missary. is Polish Jew with protruding
eye ansd blond mustache and wears a
white collar. He acknowledged the cor
respondents greeting anGIthen sat down
at his dinner table, completely, ignoring
the American.
At the commissary's side throughout
the meal and during the correspondent s
| visit Russian soldier armed with a
revolver stood watch and all the con-
versation was interpreted to him in
| Russian.
The commissary's assistant, who was
a former German officer, said this Rus
sian was a Soviet representative who
watched all business transacted by
| Scharncwsky and reported to the So
Wet central government, although he
never intcrf,red with the commissary's s
procedure.
When the commissary finished his
meal. which consisted of SOUP steak
smothered with onions, potatoes and
beer, he stalked to his Office. directing
the correspondent to wait. After an
hour he returned, demanded the cor
respondents passports, which he gave
a cursory inspection and then returned
to his Office.
After waiting two hours the corre-
spondent wandered about the town
talking to the inhabitants, among
| whom were many Jews. He was told
| they did not know whether they were
going under Russian. Polish or Ger
, man rule, but said they had heard
rumors there would be plebiscite in
all this territory in the near future In
which the people would be permitted
to vote whether they desired to adhere
to Russia or Germany. The inhabi-
tants declared such vote would be
overwhelmingly in favor of Germany.
Shut on From Russia
There is no commerce with the rest
of Russia by telephone. telegraph or
along the frontier have been existing
solely on the products of the farms.
They declare that unless commerce Is
soon revived with Germany they will
experience great suffering.
When the correspondent was unable
! after several hours to see Scharnewsky
again he prepared to depart, but an
orderly from the commissary's Office di
rectcd him to remain another hour, by
which time high official was expected
to arrive. The correspondent ignored
the order.
The villages about Kolno appeared
prosperous enough, although the peas
ants were ragged, barefooted and de-
| spondent and presented poverty
! stricken appearance. In the fields were
and women were harvesting wheat.
| Along the road were many iron cruel
fixes at wsysidc shrines, at which the
| piOus populace wOrshiped.
In Kolno there Is less evidence of the
recent war than in the towns of Fast
| Prussia, where broken statues, SCARED
| houses and ruins of blown up buildings
| still bear witness to the damage done
by the Russian invaders in 1914.
Berlin, Aug. 18.-The commander OF
the twelfth Russian Soviet division,
which Friday night entered Soldau, on
the Warsaw Danzig railroad, approx
mately fifteen miles northwest of
Mlawa, solemnly declared to deputation
OF inhabitants that this territory never
| again unnIH halnnO n pnlanH ACCORD l.
ing to dispatches received here.
The Polish burgomaster of Soldau
fled. The Russians appointed a citizens
committee from which Poles were ex-
cluded.