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RUSSIA'S -TRAĢIO YEARS GENERAL GOURKO'S STORY OF THE WAR.

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All persons with certain exceptiona who

The mind recla at the number of books A series of documents issued by the

Public that will be written about the great war United States Committee Information prove the purely German"tragedy knitted by giants and untied origin of the Bolshevik revolution, and by dwarfs." The untying will be a fear- to 1-P.M. and 2 PM to 4 P., daily.

and their fully complicated business, and of none of that Lenia and Trotsky associates are merely tools in the hands the theatres of war will this hold more

are required to Register thousselves under of PERSONS of the German General Staff. The docu-chan Russia, where the cords were so vastamain in the Colony for more than 7 days ments are taken from the report made to and so tangled that any simple straighton--the REGISTRATION

ORDINANCE, 1818. the Committee on Public Information by Mr. Edgar Sisson, the Committee's special Russia during the representative winter of 1917-18.

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DOCUMENT No. 4 (G.G.S. Nachrichten, Berlin Bureau, Section A. Number 35,

January 17th, 1978). "To the Commissary of Foreign Affairs The section has received exact informa tion that the leaders of the Socialist party now ruling in Russia through Messta Fürstenberg and Badek are in correspon douce with Messra. Scheidemann and Parvus regarding the destruction of the traces of the business relations of the party with the Imperial Government. We also know that this demand was caused by the demand of lending groups of Ger man Socialists who saw in the baid con- munications a danger to the cause of world Socialism. By order of the staff have the honour to request we submitting of this question to special discussion in the presence of the representative of our staff and Herr von Schönem BD,

ing out sects an impossibility.

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General Basil (ourko's Momories and Impressions of War and Revolution in Russia, 1914-1917 | (John Murray, 188, net), the most considerable and authoritative book that has yet appeared on the Russian problem. The ex-Chief at the Russian General Staff writes with masterful knowledge of his subject, and yet in these records of a man who lived in the very midst of the factors of dis integration in array and Court and people there are blanks which one would like Gilled--which a score of encyclopodists might fail to

General Gourke's book will have a Its governing appeal to military men. earlier chapters describe in detail tho Russian operations on every front from mobilisation until the armistice of surrender. That survey is too fochniqu to have much interest for the lay reader, but here and there the civilian will fasten upon passages that will convey to him accurately how the uniformed millions came to grief in attack and retreat.

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At the time when Austria forced the Russian mobilisation, the troops of the DAIRY Czar were unprepared for the vast emer gencies of war. The Russo-Japanese wer of some of its bist had depleted the army ufficers, and their places had not been adequately filled. Motor-

r-transport was lamentably lacking, and cavalry which could have been employed to magnificent effect on the battle-fronts was comman deered for carrying purposes.

Note.Of the personalities named in. the letter, Scheidemann, the leader of the German Government supporting wing of the Socialist party, in the most notable Once before he has been named in relation to the business relations of the Raina Bolsheviks with the Imperial Government ns, namely, writing a letter from Berlin, dated August 25th, 1917, to ar Olberg," in which he stated that 150.000 kroners had been placed at Olberg's dis posal at Fürstenberg's office through the Nis bank. Now Fürstenberg, by this time (January), in Petrograd at the Smolny Institute is trying to help Scheidemann in covering up old trails. Radek is a clever Polish or Austrian Jew who came front Switzerland with Lenin. He and Trotsky The battle of Tannenberg, in the first between them staged the public play-set-month of the first year of the war, in ing at Brest-Litoval Von Schönemann which the two central corps of Samsonoff was the accredited German representative were surrounded by the Germans and to the Bolshevik Foreign Office. Parvus is captured, was the beginning of the cad propaganda General Gourko asorthes the disaster to the handler of German

the part of the Russian money, with headquarters at Copenhagen, tactical errors on

on the flanks. When the

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"The Germans, on the other hand," writes General Gourko, with their splendid railway system, were able at any time to bring up train-loads of SAUSAGES, BRAWN. reinforcements to meet strategic contin- gencies."

and is credited with being the directing corps comvolution came, the urmies i

force behind Joffe.

DOCUMENT No. 7 (G. S. Nachrichten Bureau, Section H., January 12th, 1918. Confidential).

melted away

That economic reform which brought about the transition of the peasantry from common to single owner- chip affected ninety per cent. of the army's recruits. They went back to the land," while the enemy were advancing.

KREENSKY'S PRIDE.

To the Commissary of Foreign Affairs. --By the order of the Local Department of the German General Staff the Intolli- gence, Section has informed us of the Does and the characteristics of the pain candidates for the re-election of the Ceh- Am attempted reorganisation of the Keransky became Min- tral Executive Committee. The General army followed. Staff orders us to insist on the election of ister of War. General Gourko, who dis- the following people: Trotsky v Lenin, plays no acerbities in his book, has Zinovioff, Kamencff, Joffe, Sverdlov, obviously little, opinion of this mystery Lunacharaki, Kollontai, Fabrizing, Marin the active preparations for ad- tov, Steklov, Golman, Frunze, Lander,

vance, the new Minister, Kerensky, also Milk, Prebrazenski, Sollers, Studer, Golberg, Avanesoy, Volodarski, Raskolní took part. His activity was of a quita kov, Stackka, Petera and Neubut special character. He made a tour of all Please inform the President of the Council the armies, especially of those where the of the General Staff's wish-Signed, advance was intended, and addressed the In all his visita Kerensky Head of the Department, Agaster, Adjut troops.

There with enthusiasm, "moet ant, Heinrich.

were cases where the contrary happened. In the 12th Army, near Riga, a soldier in the trenches entered into a disputa with him. Then the democratic Minister of War shouted at him: 'Hold your tongue when the Minister cf War is The following documents show in de the speaking to you! Only just before him how German Government financed

the the soldier

ter not to call him Russian Bolshevik revolution through the Minister of War, but simply German Imperial Bank. They show what

On Kerensky's shoulders rewards German financial and industrial Courko places the

responsibility of interests demanded in return for German Korniloff's failure to counter the Bol- support of the Bolsheviks. And they sheviks and erect a strong Provisional show how the Bolshevik leaders betrayed Government in Petrograd their own followers and abandoned the

Without going into the details of this preaching of their social revolution affair, it is enough to say that the pre- wherever the Germans ordered that it vious instructions for occupying Petro- should be abandoned.

The election, Mr. Sisson notes, was a perfunctory re-election of practically the whole of the former Executive Committee of Commissaries.

FINANCING THE REVOLUTION,

DOCUMENT No. 8 (Reichsbank No. 0 January 8th, 1918 Very secrat). "To the Commissary of Foreign Affairs, -Information has to-day been received me from Stockholm that 50,000,000 ropbies

did not

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General

grad by the troops faithful to the Provi- lonal Government were made, not only with the knowledge of Kerensky, but according to his instructions. But thecas Kerensky, questioned by instructions were no secret to the Petro-

of gold has been transferred, to be put the Soviets, at once denied his loyalty to

at the disposal of the representatives of Korniloff, and not only gate instructions

This credit the People's Commissaries.

has been supplied to the Russian Govern- about the sending away of troops from the capital, but even dismissed Korniloff ment in order to cover the cost of the keep of the Red Guards and agitators, in from his pott."-Express. the country. The Imperial Government considers it appropriate to remind the

Soviet of People's Commissaries of the In other documents complaint is made necessity of increasing their propaganda about anti-German propaganda and the in the country as the antagonistic attitude prend of Socialistic literature among the of the south of Russia and Siberia to the man troops, and Trotsky is asked existing Government is troubling the Ger somewhat brusquely what he is doing to man Government. It is of great importstop the agitation. Document No. 16 is a ance to send experienced men everywhere case in point 3

in order to set up a uniform Government. To the Chairman, of the Council of Signed, Representative of the Imperial People's Commissarios: The counter Bank, von Schanz.""

espionage at the Stavks advises that at the Note Members of the Red Guard were front is being spread by unknown agita paid from twelve to sixteen roubled ators the following counter-revolutionary day, whereas soldiçre were aid hardy literature:-

that number of kopecks. This letter he text of circulars of various shows where the money came from. The German Government institutions, with Bolshevik Government also required proofs of the connection of the German tory owners to pay regular wages to their workers while the later served in the Red Guard.

DOCUMENT No. 10 (Reichsbank No. Pe January 11th, 1918).

overnment with the Bolshevik workers before the passing of the Government into their hande These leaflets bave reached The also the German commanders. Supreme Commander has received a do-

To the chairman of the Council of ash from General Boffnian to stop this People's Commissaries:

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