Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-03
TROOPS
DEMANDING PEACE
Serious Disturbances in Rus
sia-Lenin and Trotsky
Uneasy.

LONDON, October 2 (by the Asso-
ciated Press).-Reports OF serious
disturbances in industrial establish
ments in soviet Russia and of a
peace movement in the army on the
western Russian front are contained
in a Reuter- dispatch from Helsing-
fors, dated Friday, based on advices
received there from Narva, near the
Russo -Esthonian border. y :
: Two commissaries were killed IN
the factory outbreaks, it is declared.
Nearly M the factories In Petrograd
essese afssnssas the worlsmen striking
With Tie object of overthrowing the
soyiet kovernment. according to the
reports.
Peace In Demanded.
Large meetings are being held
among the troops of the western So
Wet army, demanding peace, it is
asserted. Twelve delegates from the
army who were sent to Moscow to
urge the making Of peace, however,
were summarily shot. it is declared.
Consideration reigns in the Mos
COW government" the Narva reports
said.
Leaders Are Uneasy.
PARIS. October 2-Reports received
here from Russia represent Premier
Lenin and Foreign Minister Tchit-
cherin disturbed over the successes
of the Poles and Gen. Wrangel. The
soviet government, it is declared, had
issued an appeal signed by Gen. Brus-
siloff to all officers of the former i'm
peria1, regime urging them to join the
soviet army for the defense of Russia.
German Leaders Attack.
By wireless to The Star and New York World.
Copyright, 1920.
BERLIN, October George Lede-
bour, leader Of the revolutionary So
cialists for more than half ceatu:y.
has Just given the Moscow autocrats
one of the worst tannings the boil
sheyik dictators have received up to
date. In doing so Ledebour accen-
tuates the feud for and. against ac
cepting Moscow's ultimatum under
which the independent socialist party
will be graciously permitted to join
the third internationale. Appealing,
in the Freiheit, to the party leaders
and delegates to the Halle Congress
on October IL to stand firmly and
against submitting
to Moscow's Dictatorship, Ledebour
writes:
II have already pointed out the dan
ger threatening our. and the whole
revolutionary movement
il dictatorial powers are conferred
on an international central organiza-
tion. My proofs are stregthened by
the things we are now experiencing.
'oThe Moscow international central
committee is already working under
high pressure, through it's tools in
Germany to influence the German
workers to acts and measures which
must inevitably get US into war
against France and the entente.
Sees Danger Of War.
III we are to give way to these ac-
tivities Of the communists, which
drive and agitate toward war, the
French, at last, would have the pre-
text they desire to occupy the Ruhr
district. Nor would effective defense
be possible, or even an agreement,
with the communists at the helm. Be
fore the French and English workers,
among whom revolutionary inclina-
tions are very weakly developed,
would get busy Germany would
have been overrun and plunged into
fresh war and misery.
when one looks through Moscow's
spectacles one can with a light heart
impose such sacrifices on Germany,
and, to begin with, on German work
men. But for US it would be policy
of criminal madness.
1T is imperative that we oppose
every attempt to place decision of
such questions in the hands of the in
central committee in Mos
COW. The German proletariat must
not be used as canned fodder for
Lenins, Trotsky's and Radek's plans.
Z Let us keep our own business in
our own hands," -..-...-.--.s