Show MIRBACH CALLED DOUBLE DEALER Treated l With Both viki and Nat Nationalists Says V VS S n Uy JOliN Former tAr cre-tAr of the the- o 9 Washington July 1 14 The Thic The always changing ln conditions In Russia have passed In th the last few days das Into a now new critical 1 phase which modifies almost entirely the whole situation Unveiling Unveil ell trig ing new hopes and pos possibilities the situation Is at the thO same time pregnant with new dangers and antI perplexity Two Important events c have happened the Moscow Io cow revolt re Is being suppressed and tho tue valiant Slovak Czecho troops are seriously threatened by combined d I German Bolshevik attacks I tool feel that I It might be timely to reveal cal to the American people all ail that th we know kno of ot Count Mirbach's activities in Russia adroit Prussian diplomat while entertaining the most cordial relations 1 with the time Bolshevik lk government go and flooding the countr country with Ith false news I and anti deliberate ml misrepresentation was simultaneously making all efforts to I t tempt the moderate Russian group to accept German military help for the he overthrow of ot the Bolshevik He lie was I assuring the national Russian or organizations organizations I that Germany had cert certainly a aleal areal areal real leal Interest In having In her neighborhood neigh neigh- a moderate government bO which should only agree t to friendly relations with the time central powers Mirbach went I so far tar as to promise e an Immediate re reconsideration re- re consideration of or th the I n u n t t treaty rca t i y n Proposals V Rejected I The Russian national group although I not hot conceding their hopeless condition I and growing growing- despair from the lack of ot any signs o of allied help and their de desire desire de- de sire to liberate their country countr from the Germans yet rejected with Indignation MIrbach's I Ignominious proposals What happened 13 later is known Mirbach was assassinated V I 1 am mentioning this Incident merely merel to accentuate the absolute te necessity of Immediate allied help in which the presence ence of or allied military units Is understood un un- to be the great factor In re- re s that hope which Russians are losing and In dissipating that h hypnotic hypnotic hyp hyp- p effect of German invisible In e strength th which Is depressing the time spirit of tile the nus Russians lans who s see e nothing but German troops and nothing of ot the al alI allies al- al I lies I es minding Blinding Effect I This factor of ot a blinding effect of ot Germany s military supremacy has to tobe be he considered as one of or the tIme Important elements clements contributing to the passivity of the tile Russian masses which of or course creates unfavorable conditions for a national uprising Speaking of oC an allied military help we ne certainly have haye not In mind an as assistance assistance assistance as- as to be rendered any particular faction of Russia no matter how laudable laudable laudable laud laud- able Its Intentions would be There Isa is isa isa a certain amount of or talk about the tile possibility possibility possibility pos pos- of oC using the local loca Soviets as a channel for or allied assistance The local do ie with re republican re- re Soviets lets have nothing to and publican or principles do not differ from the central soviet government go which the latest Moscow events c prove pro Is virtually favorable to the German activity |