The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-26
HOFF MANN ADVISES INTERVENTION BY
 ALLIES IN RUSSIA
Former Chief of Staff of Ger man East Army Says BoI- SheViSm Is Now a World
 Problem

Berlin, December 25.-Gen Wilhelm Hoffmann, former chief of staff of the German east army, who played an iin- portant part in the Brest-Ltovsk nego- tiations, declares in an interview pub bshed in the Berlin Russian Dail Rul that bolshevism, having ceased to be regional, is a world problem now, which can be solved only by armed interveu- tion by the great powers acting in con cert. An international army, under the leadership of Pershing. Joffre or Focn, should occupy Petrograd, General Hoff- mann says, then march on Moscow, which, he asserts, is bound to fall before any well-equipped and properly officered force.
 With the occupation of Moscow, Trotzky and Lenine would be unhorsed and their 3,0o0 commissars overthrown and the members of the whole regime, General Hoffman predicts, would ask ''safe conduct to pass the shortest way to oblivion" He feels certain that the Russian workmen would be glad to de- sert their present leaders at the first in- dication that their overthrow was immi- nent.
 Moscow must be spoken to in the lam guage of Brest-Litovsk, not in the lan- guage of Lloyd George in London" the general continues. ITO remodel bolshe- vism is impossible. Any entente attempt to incorporate bolshevsm in the Euro pean consort would be wrong. Any trade relations with Russia would only furnish a cloak for red propaganda; bolshevk aim will ever be revolution.
 '"Trotzky has studied the history Of the French revolution and knows the use of the scourge. Under his system no man can rise to power from the army; the appearance of new Napoleon fin Russia is out of the question.
 GAS VS. LEVINE
 "The crash of the soviet regime would inevitably be followed by a reign of un- paralleled anarchy. The only thing that remains is armed intervention by the great powers. As chief of staff of the east army during the war, I directed the propaganda against the Russian army. The general staff naturally made use of every possible means to break through the Russian front. One of these means vas poison gas; another was Lenine.
 The imperial regime dispatched Lenine to Russia from the Swiss from tier in a sealed car for a definite pur- pose With our consent Lenine and his friends disorganized the Russian army. Won Kuehlmanp, former German secre- tary for foreign affairs; Count Czernin. Austro-Hungaria minister and l then closed the Brest-Litovsk treaty so that we could throw our dIny dSdliiol euS west front. While in Brest we were con vinced that the bolsheviki could not hold power more than three weeks.
 "On my word of honor as German general, in spite of the valuable service Trotzky and Lenine rendered, we neither knew nor foresaw the danger to hu- manity from the consequence Of this tourney of bolshevists to Russia. At that time we weighed the matter with as lit tie consideration as the entente does now.
 Would the allies, and especially Lloyd George, carry on negotiations and make concessions if they fully reckoned tho frightful danger which bolshevlsm rep resents?'
 General von Hoffman says that tho army command later realized the dan ger, and a plan was laid before the su- prenae command of the eastern army TOT the overthrow of bolshevism, but events developed so rapidly following the as- sassination of Count won Mirbach, tna German ambassador to Russia, in Mos. COW, and the situation on the west front had become so critical that it. was inn- possible to force the issue.