Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08

dicted there would be a revolution unless they
ended successfully.
On October an American secret service re-
port predicted that the Kaiser would abdicate,
a full month before the event On October q,
two weeks ahead, there was report, "on high
British authority" that the Kaiser was sending
30 trunks to Holland. 1t has been said since
that King George of England had quietly ar
ranged for the fight and refuge of his impe-
rial relative.
Before that, American naval intelligence had
foretold the striking of the spark that started
the blaze. The sailors of the German feet at
Kiel were discontinued and ripe for revolt. And
finally, on October 80, 1918, branch of the
American secret service sent word to Chau-
mont and Washington that revolution was lnl-
minent in all Germany. The report was based
upon information of agents who just before
had talked in Berlin with some of the very men
who were to become its leaders.
No wonder the allied secret service knew
quite good deal about German revolution;
they helped start it. The whole truth about
the uprising of the Independent Socialists that
seemed TO the outside world almost shockingly
sudden, is scarcely known outside Germany
and inside, those who know say little.
Popular belief is that Republicanism in Ger
many plus starvation and defeat caused it.
Actually, but for allied and American intrigue
not have come off when it did. We kindled in
Germany the fires of revolt, as Germany had
kndled them in Russia-but luckily we escaped
the sparks.
THE allied game was to strengthen and help
secretly in every way possible the group in
Germany who opposed the Imperial Govern
ment and the military and Junker party, and
were willing to intrigue within for peace and
Socialist Republic-especially if they were paid
for it, Well, they were. But in ways as secret
and devious as all spy business was paid for.
Quietly and long the allies worked, sometimes
with Machiavellian cleverness, to help that
group expand and grow strong.
Their work of intrigue was second only to
terrible, soul-trying privation at home and
crushing defeat at the front in strengthening
more determined Socialists within Germany I'M
til at the right moment they could strike and
win
footnote to that history is the story of the
revolutonist groups outside Germany. Who
heard much of the German Social Revolution
airy Party of Paris?
There was one group of deadly earnest men
working with the French Dsuxieme-Intelh-
gence-Bureau, distilling poison to inject into
the veins of the empire they hated. That
poison was news of allied victories and poll
cies especially those of President Wilson, told
Cleverly in German in a newspaper printed In
Paris, then distributed by secret means through
Switzerland, in fake wrappers, to a remark
able mailing list of sympathizsrs within Ger
many that was ever increasing
Not content with cold type, this Paris group
also spread its poison by word of mouth OF its
own enthusiastic agents, travelling in Germany
ON varied pretexts.
This group, too, found President Wilson's
speeches most poisonous of all to German des-
potism. They sent no little American propa-
ganda and once sent a message to American
ca to get more.
poison seeped into Germany In 1918 across
her northern borders as well as her SOUTH
ern. To both chung little pockets of German
revOutionarieS, ever growing, ever incubating
more plots and ntrigues, running frontiers by
night to start whispering campaigns of revolt
and defeat in the beeaguered empire distrib-
ute propaganda or burn munitionG plants or
wreck trains.
In Rotterdam, regular union Cf Social
Democrats who had deserted the G rman army
to Holland met weekly to plan how to help