The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-01-11
STATE DEPARTMENT
DECLOSES SORDID
WORLD WAR SECRET

Washington (FP)-Sensational and
sordid is the story of war time in
trigue by the great military powers to
secure the support of Italy, Bulgaria
and Roumania in the year 1915, as
related by official dispatches and cor
respondence just made public by the
state department. These papers are
published under the. title, Papers Re
lating to the Foreign Relations of the
United States; 1915 Supplement,
World War" Incidental to the pur-
chase of Italy and Rumania by the AL
lies and the buying of Bulgarian sup
port by the Central Powers, is a rev.
elation of the strictly business atti-
tude taken by the Wilson administra-
ton toward the conflict THAT peri
cd. The Lusitania sinking and the
stopping of American cargoes by the
British fleet caused endless protest
from Washington, which was not at
all concerned with the rights of small
nationalities or the right of self de-
termination.
Ambassador Walter Hines Page, in
a cable to Secretary Bryan, May 8,
1915, reports a confidential disclosure
made to him by the political editor of
the London Times, that England,
France and Russia made a bargain
with Italy on April 80, agreeing to
cede to Italy very large parts of Aus
tria, some Of which has Slavic popu-
lation, if Italy comes into the war
within a month. This was done with
out consulting Servia and against her
wishes. Italy will soon come in if she
keeps her agreement, to be followed
by Roumania. have heard unofficial
confirmation of this agreement here
Minister Charles Vopicka, at Blu
charest, Oct. 10, 1915, reported to Sec
Lansing that the Roumanian king was
trying to prevent Rumania from going
into the war for the Allies "againsi
Bulgaria" He added that ''there is Z
scheme on foot to sell to German al
fancy prices the whole of Rumania's
crop through an economic society
which was formed here a few days
ago-of course for the consideration
that the members of the society, which
would mean more or less all Rumani
an land owners, would favor Ger
many"
On Oct. 81 Vopicka reported de
tailed plan he had made earlier fol
the Allies to get Bulgaria's supper
by pledging to Servia enough of Aus
trials territory to lure Bulgaria int
a similar deal for Macedonia. But i
was Germany and Austria who biz
highest for the Bulgarian armies.
Ambassador Marye, in Petrograd
reports by letter, Aug. 81, 1915, tina
the pro-German influences which per
meated big business and the highe
nobility in Russia up to the outbreal
of the war, had been swept aside. Cor
ruption had robbed the armies of mu
nitions and other supplies, it was evi
dent. but the American ambassado
was sure that Russia would neve
make separate peace "The RAM
and file of the army practically to
man, and the people generally" h
reported, "are strong supporters of tn
war. They recognize that German
success would mean complete subju
cation Of the Slav to the Teuton, an
they know how brutally heavy rest
the hands of the Teuton on subjugat
ed peoples, and they are not unmind
full of the lot of their fellow Slavs, tn
Poles, in Prussian Poland"
Marye ignores, of course, the heav
hand laid by the cars upon thes
fellow Slays, the Poles," in Russian
: Poland. And his estimate of the Rus
sian peoples view Of the war wa
erased, within two years, by the Rus
sian revolution.