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m:mi im um GERMAN FAID ^ BOIiSHEVlKI SERVED MASTERS WEM* Wtt?fe?rew Rod Guard?Move Not jtfade Until, Trmaky Received Em phatic Orders From Berlin General Staff. Washington, Sept. 1?.?How the iron hand of the German general stall extended into . Finland through ths Cerman paid Russian Bolshevik gov ernment is pictured in today's install ment of secret documents brought out of Russia for the -American gov ernment. There also a.Pe some per emptory notes front, the German mili tary intelIigence/'S*ervice to Trotzky, the .then Bolshevik foreign minister ^ telling more of the story of the sup ? pression &x revolutionary propaganda W in Russen provinces after it had play ed its 'part in throwing the provinces into' German control. When the Bolsheviki were slow about opening the way for complete sway for their masters in Finland the German intelligence service had th\ ~ho?or" to remind them that the "Withdrawal and disarming of the Rus sian Red Guard in Finland must be 'commenced immediately. Further more, the Russian agents were direct* ed to send to r inland a trusty agen! to deal with Yarvo Haapaiaihen, chiei of the Finnish White l3uard, who was disposed to h<? loyal to his, country This Edgar IdasOn, who procured th? document explains in a note accounts /or the ?udden withdrawal of ths Reel Guard, lust' March, leaving Finland tc her ftte^ Some Russians resisted dis armament but thay were beaten. A series of court orders from the intelligence service to Trotzky calls Or the removal of all agitators from theUkraine, Estland, Litva and -Cour ?d and' for the restoration of rights a?? property to German lundlords wh-j h :?kad been declared oUttawecf in Est land. Other commjuaications throw- fur ther light on assassination compacts between the Bolsheviki and anarchists which have figured in earlier chapters of the lieries. A list of anarchists, designated as "agents of the destruc v ' tion of counter revolutionists," includ ed several characters of note. The foHowing documents show the complete surrender of the Bolsheviki leaders to their German masters. Document No. 4S. (Gr. {Great) General Staff, Central Abthellung, Section M-R, No. 411, Feb. 26, 1918). Very Secret. To the Council of People's Commis sars: According to instructions from the felgh command of the German army. I have the honor to remind you that the withdrawing and disarming of the Russian Red Guard from Finland must be commenced immediately. It i.s known to the etaff that the chiev opponent of this step is the head of She Finnish. Red Guard, . Yarvo Haa _ ^aj^nen?,. .who, has a great, influence , on the Russian tovansche (comrades). I request you to send for this strug gle with Haapalainen our agent. ^Walter -Nevalainen (Nevalaiselie). bearer of Finnish passport 3GS1, and supply him with a passport :and pass. ?Head:df the department, O. Rausch, Adjutant, U. Wolff. Note?Written at the top of the let ter and\signed N. G*r the initials or Eenin's ^secretary, N. GoTbunov, is the order "Send to the"commissar of for eign affairs and execute." In the mar gin, is written "Passport 211?No. 382." but unfortunately the name under which the new passoort wa~ given is not mentioned. This order explains" the withdrawal of the Rus sian Red Guard from Finland in eariy Jfarch and the abandonment cf the Finnish Red Guard to its fate. The letter, however, took care of the dis arming; both of Russian soldiers and sailors as they left Finland, for th? Finns needed guns and ammunition The Russians sometimes fought but were surrounded and disarmed. In the Helsingfprs while I was there in March the Red Guard and the sailors were fighting each other nightly with rifles and machine guns. One of two Finnish Red Guard leaders almost surely is, Nevalalnen, but under thy j?Mrcumstanccs I do not care to specu '/Wate. The order to hold all foreign em f.s bassies in Red Finland was given co incident!}' with the appearance of cm of them upon the scene. The excuse offered was that foreigners were car rying information tc the White 5* Guard. .--'Simultaneously influence was ?exerted in the White Guard to increase difficulties in passage between th* lines, ft is reasonable to place th bobstacles to passage created on both. P sides of the Finnish line to German effort, for German aid was being give*) the White Guard openly at the mo ment it. was intriguing in the inner councils of the Red Guard. The Amer ican party cornered in Finland escaped only by persistence . and good for tune. The British embassy party was passed through the day before the closing order came. The French and Italian embassies were obliged after a month of vain effort to return to Russia. Have original letter and the sur rendered passport Document No. 44. (G.- G. S., Nachrichten Bureau, Por - tion R., No. 2S3.) To the Commissar of Foreign Affair;- I We are told that secret servic ' agents attached to Stavka are follow j ing Major Erich, who has be?n order ed to Kleff. I ask you to take argen* j pleasures to remove the surveillanc ? of the above named officer.?Head of j the Department. Agasfer; Adjutam j Bukholm. Note?Chicherin. assistant foreign j minister, initials a marginal comment I "Talk it- over." Th'.s note marks th period of acute irritation over th ? Ukraine between Bolsheviks and Ger j mans. Agasfer is Major Luberts. Have original letter. Document No. t!>. (G. O. S. Nachrichten Bureau. Sec | ticn.R. No. 228. Feb. 4. 191S.) th* Commissar of Foreign Affair? \y instructions of the representa of our staff I have the honor l you immediately to recall fron t^e Ukraine front the agitato' Bryansky, Wulf, Drabkin, and Pitts ker. Their activity has been recog ] nized as dangerous by the German general *rlait.?Head of the depart ment, Aga^fer; Adjt. Henrich. . j Note?An exchange of courtesies of the same period as Document No. 44. Chickerin has notated it "Discuss." Have original letter. J Document No. 46. ' (G. G. S.? Nachrichten Bureau, Sec tion R, February 3, 1918). To the Commissar of Foreign Affairs. > According to instructions of the [ representative of our general staff, I have the honor once more to insist that you recall from Estland, Litva . and Courland all agitators of the ceu tral executive committee of the Soviet of workmen and soldiers' deputies.? Head of the department, Agasfer; Adjutant Bukholm. ;, Note?Another instance of the time ; when Germany was using an iron hand of discipline, clearing of agita tors the provinces it already had an-; [ nounced its intention of seizing for its; '. own. The letter was referred by Mar-; /kin, one of Trotzky's" secretaries, to Volodarsky, who sems to have been [ in charge of the proletarian agitation in these provinces. j [: Have original letter. Document No. 47. '.! (G. G. S., Nachrichten Bureau, Sec ''? tion R., No. 17. Feb. 17, 191S.\ TO the Council of People's Commis [j sars: / ;; The intelligence department, has re-j ceived detailed information that thf- j agiators of the Petrograd soviet of | " workmen and soldiers' deputies have; [ completely changed the character of; * the Estland socialists' activity, which ! finally led to the local German land-] ' lords being declared outlawed. By j i order of the general staff I ask you i tD. take 'immediate steps for the i \' restoration of the rights of the above j \ mentioned German landlords and the j ; recalling of the agitators.?For the] head of the department. R. Bauer, j ' j Note?This order for the release of ! ': the German landlords was at once j ! obeyed, and the act of surrender, evi- J I denth/ at the direct order of Lenin, to j whom this letter is addressed, mark- \ ed the end of the incipient rebellion)' of the Bolshevik leaders against' their German masters, j Have photograph of letter. Document No. 48. Varied Activities, j (Counter Espionage ? at the Stavka, January 22, 1918.) To the Council of People's Commis ; sars: j By our ag-ents it has been establish j ed that connections between the Poles, i the Don and French officers, and; also ! probably the diplomatic representa ! tives of the allied powers are main j tained by means of Russian officers : traveling un?er the guise of sack . speculators. In view of this we re ' quest you to take measures for the j strict surveillance of the latter.? Commissar Kalmanovich. j Note?The indorsement on this is by Trotzky, "Copy to inform Podo ! visky and Dzerzhinsky." The fcrm i er was minister of war, the latter ; chairman of the commission for corh ^Littlng: the-counter-revolution, SacV-4 f speculators were food peddlers wh j went into the provinces and brought food to the cities for profitable sale. Soldiers practically had a monopoly of the trade. Have photograph of letter. Document No. 49. (Gr. General Staff, section R. No. 151. December 4, 1917.) i To the Commissa: iat oi. Military Af- j j fairs: j Herewith the intelligence bureau' } has the honor to transmit a list of [ j the persons of Russian origin who ' are in the service of the German in j telligence department: Sakharoff, officer, First Infantr\ {?Reserve Regiment; Praporsrchik Ter-! i Arytiuniantz, Proporschik, Zanko, j Yarchuk, Golovin, Zhuk. Ilinsky. j Cherniavsky, Captain Postinkov. {Scheueeman, Sailors Trushin and j Gavrilov. All ,the persons mentioned jare on the permanent staff of the in j telligence department of the German j general staff.?Plead of the depart ! ment, Agasfer. j Note?Have photograph of letter. Document No. 50. ; C r. General Staff, central division section M, Jan. 14, 1918). Very Confidential, j To the Chairman of the People's j Council of Commissars: The Russian section of the Ger ? man General Staff has received ! an urgent report from cur agents rat Novocherask and Rostoff that I the friction which - has arisen be j tween General Alexieff and General Kaledin, after which the volunteer corps of General Alexieff began the movement to the north, is a tactical I step to have a base in the rear. In this way the army of General Alexieff j will have a reliable rear base protect- j Jed by Cossack troops for supplying I tht army and a base in case of an J j overwhelming movement on the nart ; |o" the enem!y. The communications j j of General Alexieff with the Polish; j troops have been proved by new re- j ports of the Polish Bolshevik commis- i J sars. Shuk and Dembitsky.?Chief ofj j *hc Division of General staff. O. j Rausch; senior aid, R. Krieger. Note?Important as showing that | j the Germans had a real fear of the! [military possibilities in the Alexieff-! j Kaledin movement The suicide of; General Kaledin at a moment of de-i jpression, following betrayals that un-i doubtedly were carefully plotted, was i j tragically a part of the great nation-] I al tragedy. - Have- photograph of letter. Document No. 31. (Counter espionage at the Stavka. No. . 2f."-79. Jan. S3. 1 &]$..) j To the Commissar ist of Foreign ?, A Tairs: To your inquiry regarding those I. agents who might he able to give an , exact report of the sentiment of the} j troo.. and population in the Prov- j j ine< s. f transmit t<> you a short list o' j the Rttsso-German agents-informers. . :n Voronezh, S. Sirtzof: in Rostov.!; filobov and Meiikov; in Tiflis, En- . skiCze and Gavrilov; in Kazan, i Finite: in Samara. Aaipov and Voe- j < niir: in Omsk, Blagoveschensky and j j Sipko: in Tomsk. Dattan. Tnrasov : and Rod ion ov: in Irkutsk. Zhininiz- i i erova and Geze; in 1'ladivostock. But- ; " tenhof. Pannoff and Erlanger.- Chief] of counter espionage. Fierabenrt; Commissar, Kammanovich. ji Note?Apart from the list oi agents1 tili sletter has interest from the com ment: To the company of Bonch Bruevich.' The signature is illegible. Have photograph of letter. Document No. 32. (Counter espionage at the Savka, No. 393, Jan. 21, 1913.) The agents of the counter es pionage at the Savka have es tablished that the anarchists Stepan Kriloff, Fedor Kutzi, and Albert Bremsen, at Helsingsfors, and also Nahim, Arshavsky, Ruphim. Levin and Mikhail Shatiloff had during the recent days a conference with the chief of staff of the Petrograd Army district Shpilko. After Comrade Shpilko transmitted to the anarchists the offer of Comrade Antonoff and Comrade Bersin to recruit agents for the destruction of several counter rev olutionists the latter expressed their willingness and immediately began the recruiting. To Kleff are assigned the following, who have been hired at Helsingfors: S. Smirnoff and Riga munn. To Odessa, Brack and Shul kevich.?For the Chief of the Counter espionage; Commissar, C. Moshlov Note?This is an assassination com pact between Bolsheviks and anar chists, Antonoff, if one of the chief Bolshevik military leaders, is credited with the taking of Petrograd and was in charge of the operations against Alexieff and Kaledin. The list of an archists include several notorious characters. Have photograph of letter. Document No. 53. (Counterespionage at the Stavka, No. 471, Jan. 27, 1918.) To the Commission of Combatting th? Counter-Revplution: By us here there has been received a report from Finland., from Grishin and Bakhi, of. the counter-revolution ary activity of the lawyer, Jonas Kastren. This Kastren in the years 1914-15 recruited on German fund:-: Finnish volunteer regiments und sent them to Germany. For facilitating the work of recruiting he represent ed himself as a Socialist-Maximialis:, and premised support to the Workers' Red Guard. In his office many of our comrades found a cordial receptio . and material support. Kastren fur nished to Russia German money foi the propaganda of Bolshevism in Russia. He had already established in 1216 a division of" the German gen eral staff in Helsingfors. Now he, to gether with Syinhuvud, Ernroth and Nandeischtedt, is on the side of the White Guards and is aiding them *-ith money, supplies and arms. We are informed that Kastren works both with German and English money. It is necessary, immediately to cut shori th^ work of Jonas Kastren and his group. The commander in chief ad vises to call to Petrograd the Finnish comrades, Rakhi. and Pukko, or or der Grishin to Helsingfors.?Commis sar A. Sivko. Ncte?Kastren was still alive when I spent a week in Helsingfors .in March, but he addod^to his chances of longevity by fleeing, in early Fcb ruaiy to the White.Guards headquar ters at Veasa..,,The .order for his re-, tftorai" came~t6o' iate.:..li^gc??. %ve -se^ Germany ^playing with both sides in :"r? a.nd at the same time Have photograph of letter. PROGRESS OB* SHIP BUILDING. General Manager -Piex-to Senate Com mittee as to Tonnage Delivered and ilia" Under Way. Washington. Sept.. 20.?The ship tonnage actually :- delivered to the emergency fleet corporation so far this year amounts to one million, eight hundred and eleven thousand tons with two million, five hundred and ninety-six thousand tons launched, and also keels laid for four million, one hundred and three thousand tons This is according to figures given the senate commerce committee today by General Manager Piez. Fatal Airplane Accident. Albany. Ga., Sept. 20.?Lieut. Ming of Te:-as. was injured and Mechanic Walter Hilton, of California, was '..filed when their airplane from Southern Field at Americus. ,fell near Dawson, on Dawson-Albany high way. Ming said that he lost control when the machine went into a "spin. Froni a Wounded Soldier. July 28, 1918. .My Own Darling Mama: it seems I can't get a letter from von at all. I know you have written but I have not received a letter since ray arrival over here. I have been in the hospital since the 15th. I think there is some mail (1 hope) for me at my company. I wrote for it some few days ago: hope and hope every! day. I hope you got my letter tell ing you of my wounds. Will tell you I again though for fear the subrha rin<> claimed the last one. I was wounded at 5.?0 A. M. July 15th right arm, left side, and twice in the back but my side is the only serious, one. and it's getting along fine now. Hut my old machine gun was cer tainly talking to them when they got me. The boys counted ten in one pile, so I said that's no: had. two for j each wound and two for my boy. So j you see he has two square heads to his credit already. This is an awful ! war on Germans. We are having' open warfare and the Germans can': <tand cold steel. They say the Amer- ; icans are all crazy or drunk. They will fight until our men get close mough to us" the bayonet then they j hrow down their guns .and holler: 'Kamarad," and you know its hard o have to remind your men not to. .hoot a man without. ;: gun. 1 don'; J re how this war can last much lonc the way they are being killed and iaptured. T am in hopes - of beintr j ionic for Xmas. You must write me j >ere soon as you get this, as I will bo lere for a month *>;? little longer ! ruess. I am often thinking of She:.: md David and the rest of the kid- i lies; Tell me all about thrm will you Vnd how is Bill. Tell Bill we: are | retting kinder like the Irishman >i;r. :i little ? Will write some more soon. Love o all. All my lave and kisses to you i'our loving baby boy. Lon. P. S. Don't worry, f am all right. 1.'. A. D. Russell, r. s\ Base Hos j ?ital No. 101, Amer. Exp. Force i ia New York. ? Home Befflonstration Work UKe;-KEELS, Demunsn^r ALiSE VIAR I*. Assistant Program of three-clay health insti tute to be held at Girls' High Schol, September-23rd-25th, under auspices of City .Home Demonstration Club: Monday, Sept. 23. j 4. P, Mt?Diet of the Child from I one to six. Medical Emergencies? ; Dr. H. M.' Stuckey. Tuesday, Sept 24th. j 1.00 P. M.?Prenatal Care?Dr. So ! phia Brunson. j Food for the Baby, Demonstration 1 in Modifying Milk?Miss Annie Keels. Wednesday, Sept. 25th. ! 4 P; M.?-Prevention and Treatment I of Colds?Dr. C. J. Lemmon. First Aid?Miss Mary Heinrich. ?The public is cordially invited to i attend the sessions oi this health in ; stitute. This will take the olace of ! the City Home Demonstration club's regular monthly meeting for Septem ber. This health institute is in line with what the State and County Coun cils of Defense are doinf; to stimulate interest in the increasing of the ef ficiency of the physical, mental and moral conditions among the civilian ! population who are in fact the "sec I ond line of defense" in the winning of ! the war- There will be so few physi j cians and trained nutscs left at home j because of the demamds made upon j the professions by the government in war work, that the State Cojuncil of Defense-realizes the importance of every one learning how to prevent the contracting and spread of communi cable an-1 other diseases. The local Home Demonstration Department is working hand in hand with the coun cils of defense in this matter of pro jection of the public fcealth. ! Motorists to Organize. ? The South Carolina State Automo bile Association, affiliated with the American' Automobile Association, al ready ? has IS branches in the cities and towns of the State and ten others j are in process of organization. The [officers are:" A.. B. Carter, Greenville; ' president; James D. Hammett, Ander son, first .vice president; John A. Law, j Spdrtanbur'g, second vice president; I O. P.-Mills, Greenville, treasurer, ana j-J. W. . Cofield, Greenville, general ( manager. -An efiort has been starte 1 to organize .a branch in Columbia, which we take for granted will suc ceed. For Columbia longer to re main out of an association of this character-, would be for it to step ouL of the procession of advance. In the'Jearly days of the automobile? a club; was organized in Columbia: but it did!" not long survive, for the reason that " it was local. The iho tonst's^ interest is -in a territory at? iwldeVas^fte. range of his/ear and that ps"^^y thatit estendV" Wherever nighwaV-S penetrate in the United States..; The South Carolina motorist i? especially interested in the high ways of, his State and to him county r in** have little meaning or signifi Lmce. .An. automobile association is pri marily a good roads association, though it has power to biing numer ous other benefits to the owner of I the ;>owei driven vehicle as well as to j the whole public. The time has ar jI rived when every man and every j family, whether or not they own cars, 'are interested directly and intimately J in tnis means of transportation. Yet. ! as a public conveyance of travel, the automobile is in its infancy in this part of the world. Little foresight is required to see the day when the people of every neighborhood without railroad facilities will have public au j tomobiles to travel in at low cost, j provided only that they have hard and j smooth roads the year*round. j On account of inferior roads the ; annual automobile wastage in South j Carolina totals an enormous sum in j money. The casual vii-itor to any [ Northern locality where the roads are good will have this fact brought home to him by the sight of eight or ten machines of the pattern of 1911 or 1912 to one that he sees in use in South Carolina. ; Columbia is the center of the high ways of this Sttae. Thai is why Co lumbia is here, where the falls of the rivers stop and the plains that com pose the lower triangle of our terri tory begin. Consequently it is mani fest that more than any other com munity Columbia has a stake in a co ordinated system of first rate highways linking every county and community of South Carolina. It is not necessary to enter into de tail describing the objects of the State Automobile Association and of the value that a branch of it would mean to Columbia, it suffices to say that Columbia can scarcely less afford to bo without an automobil-.: club in these times than it could afford to have railroads focusing here without offices to give information as to their traf lic and to protect the public in '?heir use. Years ago The State urged the or ganization of motorists, but without success. Now the organization has been effected. It is firmly established. 26 towns and cities are members of it and the names of its officers guar antee its responsible and economical direction. Columbia, we repeat, can j not afford to be out o- i:. Indeed. Co-j lumbia can net afford not to have a i : trong and influential place in it.? Plate.. Sept. 19. Serious Sunday Shooting. ; I At Boykin on Sunday E-ijah Rey nolds shot and seriously wounded I Richard Timbers. There seems to; have been no provocation for the] ; hooting, but Reynolds drew his pis-"! tol and fired at Timbers, striking him! in ihe side. Dr. Flay attended the*! wounded boy, and his wound is con sidered serious. Reynolds was cap-! lured and lodged in jail early yes-j rerday ..morning. The boys were; ibou| t ighteen years of age.?Wateree' Messenger. .Miss Mabelle Burgpss left on Wed-: lesda'y for Chicora College in Colum bia: 1 CALLS OX FARMERS TO HOLD well informed farmers and others, SEED. 'and have reached the conclusion that - jwc should accept the stabilized prices that have been fixed. This price ca:i be obtained if the farmers and din ners will not offer it in such volume as to glut the market. "I therefore urge upon those having ieed to dispose of them gradually, to load cars only after an actual sale or exchange has been made, a^d to secure their meal and store it in ..'heir barns for use next spring." . AGREES WITH WILSON. Unless Cottonseed arc Marketed Slow i ly, Disaster in Prices Threatens. Columbia, Sept. 20.?Go v. Manning yesterday called on farmers and gin ners to market,their cotton seed grad ually that threatened disastrous gluts 1 of. markets may be averted. Governor ; Manning himself has large farming j interests and is vitally concerned in the prices paid for cotton seed. He is I sued the following statement yester i day afternoon: . '"To the Farmers and Ginners of; --. j South Carolina: j Hungarian Leaders Ready to Accept "As a farmer and one deeply inter-: Peace Proposals, ested in the farming interests of th^j Amsterdam, Sept. IS.?Count Mi State, I am impelled to urge upon | chacl Karolyi, the Hungarian opposl you not to rush seed to the oil mills, i tion leader, has reiterated his declara I urge this because at many points': tion that the Central Powers should ! there is now such congestion" that ? accept President Wilson's 14 peace i cars are on demurrage. Farmers j points as the basis for peace -negotia : should not load cars with seed until! tions, according to a Budapest dis they actually make a sale. Due to the patch to the Frankfort Gazette. An short crop, and to the enormous de- 1 other essential, he says, is for "se mand for cottonseed meal, a shortage rious democratic governments" in I for next spring stares us in the face.' Austria-Hungary and Germany to take I urge the farmers to -xchange seed i the helm. The reactionaries, he in for meal wherever p:.. ticable, or to ? sits, must be sent to the rear. The sit j sell the seed and at once buy the meal j uation,' he adds also calls for the ab and haul it home so as to make sure j rogation of the Brest-Litovsk and Bu of their supply. I am informed that ? charest peace treaties, some of the mills have stopped buy- "Thus only can peace come," the ing seed because they have already j count declares: got as much as they can handle, soj-? that at many points it is impossible i Paris, Sept. 20.?Thirty were killed for the farmers and ginners to find a I and more than a score injured in a sale for their seed. i train collision between Dijon and Bar "T have gone into this matter with! rasche yesterday. Thrift Stamps. Buy The Firs-, National Bask SUMTER, C. Your War Savings Pledge Qur boys at the .frost are making U, good their pledge. Hovr about you S ~ 4 V ?1 i Buy War Savings Stamps' to-day.';"<?" o We sell them. The National Bank of South Carolina I F ?. HIN'MANT. X Cashier. " * .;..|i.;Mi.i;..i.^<..|..;,.;..>.M???.;..r..:..:.,i^CK''>*???'><'<??? C. G. RUVbLAN'J, Pres'denl. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Subscribers to 3rd Liberty Loan will please call for their Bonds. We will be very glad to file these Bonds in our vaults for safe-keep ing for those who may desire us to do so. The National Bank of Sumter, The "Old Reliable" Since 1889 J P. BOOTH, President W. J. CROWSON, Jr., Cashier % Building Material and Feed Stuffs * * * Rough and Dressed Lumber, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Bn'ck, Shingles. Mouldings', Etc. All kinds of Feed for Horses, Cows, Hogs and Poultry. We solicit your patronage. ! Booth <& McLeod, IlfC. Phones 10 & 631 j * I