IS IT PEACE?

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1918, Page 7

IS IT PEACE?

RUSSIA SOLD Bi r RUSSIANS.

AMAZING STORY OF DUPLICITY.

The announcement made in Wednesday's cables that the lluesian delegates have signed the German-made peace conditions may have the effect of ending hostilities between the Russo-Ger-man forces, but it will hardly sullice to restore order in the much-troubled land that has been brought to u state of chaos and ruin by the Kaiser's secret agents. .It is not likely that the peace will be a lasting one, since it has been brought about by treachery unparalleled in history, and paid for with German money. Everything that has happened, including the Ukraine split, .was provided for and paid for. Lenin Trotsky, and other Russian leaders aided the uprising against the monarchy, then baulked the efforts of Kerensky and others to form a patriotic Government, promoted the Ukraine split, and finally sold the whole country to Germany. Lenin aud his fellowconspirators did their dirty work almost too well. The German Staff, says Herman Bernstein in the New YorkHerald, never dreamed that the Leninites would go as far as they did; did not suspect that the plotters would be able to seize the whole Government and turn it over.

Tho story begins with Ganetsky, whose real name is Fu.erstenberg, and Parvus, who was originally a Russian subject, later a Turkish subject, and became a German subject. Residing in Copenhagen, where he owns a beautiful villa, and availing himself of the special privileges granted him by the German Government, he was 'constantly travelling back and forth from Berlin. Copenhagen and Stockholm, where G-a-netsky and other Bolshevik leaders lived. He was the German agent for maintaining relations with the Bolsheviks.

Another German agent was the Ukrainian Skoropis-Yoltukhovsky, who was supplied with funds and sent to Russia last \pril. Lenin left Berlin about the same time.

NOBBLING UKRAINIANS. The Germans made a mistake about Ensign Yerinolenko, a prisoner of war, whom they confused with a Ukrainian leader of the same surname. Yermolenko was asked to return to Russia as an escaped prisoner of war, and there, free from military service, conduct a large campaign, sparing 110 funds. He was to start a propaganda, employing any methods necessary for the purpose of the overthrow of the Provisional Government, and particularly

the removal of Milukov and Gutchkov; (-2) tho separation of the Ukraine as nn independent State; (;j) the immediate conclusion of peace between Russia and Germany.

After numerous persistent efforts on the part of the Germans to persuade him to undertake this work, and by the advice of his comrades, the officers among the prisoners of war, Ensign Veriuolcnko consented to accept the ofier. He received l-'iW) roubles for preliminary expenses, and a monthly allowance of 8000 roubles for his personal expense*. Then he was-Orought secretly to the rear of our army.

According to t<ie instructions from the German officers of the General Staff. Yermolenko was to report and receive funds from the Ukrainian SkoropisYoltukhovsky, whom the Germans sent to Russia simultaneously with Ycrmolenko. Skoropis-Yoltukhovsky started on tho same mission and received his funds from someone named Svendson, at the German Embassy in Stockholm.

LENIN'S GERMAN INSTRUCTIONS.

According to tho same German officers, Yermolenko was informed that after the Berlin conference of the Socialists, at which Lenin and SkoropisYoltukhovsky were present, Lenin also was sent to Russia for the same aims and purposes- Lenin ia getting funds from people sent specially to, Stockholm, through whom he maintains relations wit'h Lerlin. Lenin and Skorohovsky ware instructed to woi'k together, just as Ensign Yermolenko was instructed to work together with Skoropis-Yoltuk-hovsky. In the event of a betrayal Ensign Yermolenko was told that he would be put to death. Yermolenko in -May last made the following statement;— 1- I was sent to Russia by the German Government to carry out the same mission with whi.ch Yoltukhovsky was entrusted. Yoliukhovsky left Berlin between April 28 and 28* 1917. He is at present, I believe in Kietf. Lenin was also sent for the same purpose.

MINISTERS' TO BE REMOVED. 2. Lenin was commissioned to carry on a propaganda for peace and to endeavor in every way possible to undermine the confidence of the people in the provisional government and to cause the removal at any cost of the Minister of War, Gutchov, the Minister for ■l'oreigu Affairs, MilukofT as men who stand against the ideas of Germany in regard to peace proposals'and also to cause the removal of any of their successors who may pursue their course. 3. Yoltukhovsky was commissioned to do the following:—To arouse in the Ukrainians the idea of separating the 'Ukraine from Russia and to propagate immediate pence, also to help in the work of removing Ministers opposed to the idea of immediate peace.

UNLIMITED GERMAN FUNDS. 4. The expenses for carrying out these plans were unlimited. The money from the German Government was received in the following manner:—There is a man named Svendson in Stockholm, at the German Embassy, and Lenin and Yoltukhovsky are getting cheques drawn on Russian banks. f) ; All reports were to be transmitted to Svendson for Further'action. | <5. There were two meetings of Socialists in Berlin, iu which Lenin and Yoltukhovsky participated- Lenin al-l-ways stayed at Yoltnkhovsky's howe. I learned this from the captains of the General Staff. Schiditsky anil Lubcrs, who were at the General Staff in Berlin, and also from the inspector of the Ukrainian regiment, Captain TCadak, and Lieutenant Scheming, who was adjutant to the commandant of the camp

ol" the officers' pj-isouers ol' war, at -Hanover. 7. Captain .SJiiditsky said tliut in the event Yoltukhovsky would lie arrested, Potocki would be appointed head of tl>o Ukrainian Uiiioji for the liberation of (.lie Ukraine, chat I wns to watch the L'krainian newspapers and tl- n establish relations with him, as lie would give me further instructions and money. 8. liefoi'e leaving' (iermaiiy 1 was given 1500 rubles for preliminary expenses. In the protocol I am .giving- all details concerning the matter. 9. 1 an'ear to (he truth in the protocol and in this slatemfcnt.

USEFUL TO aJSKIIAifY Sixty-six telegrams exchanged between Lenin, Uanetsky, Sumenson, Ko::iovsky and Kolonlay were in the possession of tile DepartineU, of .Justice, allowing how funds were transmitted through Clanetsky-FuersLenburg to Buuienson for Lenin, under t'lie guise of eoimiiereial transactions. After the July riots, the department ordered the arrest of Suuienson, Kozlovsky and Kolontav.

At ilie outbreak of war (Janetsky was in Austria, where lie remained until 15)15. Then he succeeded in going to France- There he told his "friends, how he brought' iiliout the release of Lenin arid fcdiovyev, who been arrested near Cracow' by the Austrian authorities' in October, 1914. Ganetsky stated that as soon as he learned of the arrest of Lenin and Zinovyev, he hurried to them. They were being cross-examined at the time by the Austrian police. According to Ganetsky, be stopped the cross-examination immediately- j

When Ganetsky was asked what official autliority.be had to "stop tliq crossexamination' of Lenin and Zinovyev bv tin; Austrian police, l;e declined to answer. Lenin and Zinovyev . were later released through the interkept under arrest but a short time, and ference of Premier Stuerk, whose attention was called to. the 'fart that Lenin's and fiinovyev's activities were useful to Germany and Austria. The Austrian authorities then allowed them to leave for Switzerland.

Lenin and Zinovyev had known Galietsky before. They h«ul worked together as members of .the Central Committee of the Russian Scdial Demoerotic Labor Tarty, and also participated in the work of ihe committee which whitewashed the former member of the Duma, Malinovskv. whom Vladimir Bourstcff exposed as a provocateur.

KAISER'S CHARLATANISM. Gregory Alexinsky, member of the Duma, in relating these facts, Bays:—

"Toward the end of June I had occasion to familiarise myself with a portion of the materials collected by the Department of .Justice concerning the relations between the Leninites and the agents of the German Government. These documents conlirmed my conviction in 1915 to the effect that German and Austrian Governments and their, general stall's were making use of certain elements of the revolutionary movement for their'own purposes. Upon my return to.Russia after the revolution I became still- more convinced of this, for I saw the work.of some of the so-naVcd internationalists. Their work wa« directed toward insuring a German victory and a Rusian defeat "The Leninites have not only seized the _ Government, but have offered an armistice to Germany. And while the hands of the Leninites, the hands of Esau, are stretching across from Berlin betraying Russia and the revolution, the voice of Russia is R ilent. for the voice of the Leninites is not the voice of Russia.

A greater stroke of international charlatanism has never before been imposed upon the world. The TCaiaer is. offering himself peace through his paid stents, who are posing as internationalists and saviours of Russia."