The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-17

crept into the heart of your subordi- mates An army taught to loot and drink and the example of whose leaders demoralized the troops-such an army cofld save Russia
 And not having an organized rear. not having prepared a single fortified position behind the lines, and not a single point of resistance, retreating in a territory where the civil population had learned to hate it. the volunteer army. having begun it's retreat. fell back and nothing could stop it.
 As the enemy's successes developed and the poorness of our strategy and policy became evident, Russian so- ciety commenced to see things clearly. Louder and louder became the voices demanding the dismissal of several per sons of the higher command, the knowl- edge of whose actions became public.
 Tn the desire of old army chiefs, the army and society to see me at the head of troops acting in the main theatre, you saw a new danger to yourself sin. when I was chief of staff of my army, General Yousifitchiz advised concentration of a mounted force in the Kharoff region under my com mand. At this meeting you expressed an opinion. worthy of you, that we were trying to be the first to Moscow
 'In your failure you do not see your mistakes, but only the inconsistency of the mob looking for a new god.
 Greater became the alarm and dis content. Society and the army under stood perfectly the causes of our de- feat and the complaints against the higher command became more and more persistent. We saw how your power 1essened and authority slipped through your fingers. Clinging to it in absolute blindness you set out to search for treachery and mutiny.
 1.-TWO agents, the Kartashef broth CTS of the intelligence department of your staff, conducted a special cam paign against me among the Cossacks and spread reports of my intention of bringing about an upheaval with the aid of 'monarchists' and of my desire to take German orientation.'
 'The reports of my intention to create an upheaval energetically spread by your staff even went abroad. In Novorossisi1 was visited by Mir. MacKender, who had arrived from England with wide powers, and who informed me that he had received a telegram from the British government requesting information of the veracity of rumors of this proposed up- heaval. At the same time Mir. MacKinder ventured the suggestion that these rumors might find their cause In the unfriendly relations existing between us and which were very widely known He asked me whether I found it possible to be perfect ly frank with him on the subject. I re- piled that I could not admit the thought of any action against my chler. under whose orders I had voluntarily placed myself and authorized him to inform his government that my past military service is sufficient guarantee for what said.
 ''In my report, dated Decemptr T, informed you in full or rne conversa- tion with MT. MacKinder, and this docu- ment, which I placed in your hands, should have been, it seecs, sufficient to disarm your fears. You did not even reply to me-
 Not seeing the possibility of being able to help in the defense of our country, having lost confidence in it's leader whom respected and under whose orders l voluntarily placed myself, I resigned and went to Crimea.'