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Show Russia Betrayed in U. S. by Agents of Kaiser and Czar HUNDREDS OF THGMBOT TO THEIR DEATH Russ and Teuton Unite in This Country to Prevent Munitions Reaching Slav Armies. SHIPS AND FACTORIES DESTROYED IN PLOT Supplies Spoiled or Worthless Worth-less Materials Transported; Transport-ed; Woman Is Kaiser's Conspirator. By HERMAN BERNSTEIN. (Copy rig h tod, X917, by the New York Herald Company. All rights reserved. Copyright Canada by the New York Herald Company.) Russia was betrayed in this war by the Czaiina Alexandra, now exiled with the czar in Siberia. Russia was betrayed by Premier : Sturmer, who died a prisoner on the eve of his trial for high treason. ft-ussia was betrayed by Minister of j the Interior Protopopoff, a creature of j Rasputin, aud he is now awaiting his j fate ia the fortress of Peter and Paul. ! Russia was betrayed by War Minister Min-ister S&ukhomlinoff, now condeniued to imprisonment for life at hard labor. Russia was betrayed .by Colonel Mya-soyedov, Mya-soyedov, who was killed by the old regime in great haste for fear lest he might name his fellow conspirators and traitors in the highest places. German spies and agents provocateurs have worked in Russia uninterruptedly and brazenly throughout the war. They were active in the palaces of the czar, in the cabinet, in the police department depart-ment and headquarters of the general staff. Rusian generals, sympathizing with Germany for many reasons and knowing the spirit and will of their masters, betrayed Russia to Germany. The old regime betrayed the people of Russia and thus also betrayed Russia's allies. Costs the Loss of Myriad Lives. Hundreds of thousands of lives, the flower of Russia, were sacrificed on the battlefields, victims of this conspiracy. The revolution came in a large measure a6 a protest againBt this stupendous betrayal. be-trayal. Germany's system of espionage in Russia was built long before the outbreak out-break of the war. During the war the German government worked underhand with the Russian empire and not a single sin-gle Russian military secret remained a secret to the German military ntaff. Mr. Spann, brother of a member of the kaiser's cabinet, was director of the Puliloff works, the largest munitions muni-tions factory in Russia. There wore mysterious explosions in the Putiloff works in the course of the war. There were repeatedly labor disorders among tho tens of thousands of laborers in the Putiloff works and large supplies of munitions were fitored at the weakest points at the front, which fell into the hands of the Germans. Teuton Agent Runs Czar's Gun Works. During the old regime Spann wns charged with treason. As he was director direc-tor of the Putiloff works and a brother of a Gorman cabinet member he lad powerful friends in H-us-ia. So hi.-punishment hi.-punishment was mild, lie was exiled j to .Siberia for shout a year. Public j opinion was amazed and aroused, but iii 1 t:io?e ft mvs it could only be amnrd and I aroused in sibnir-e. It wa dangerous lo j t.-il thf truth. j In i boria the f nninin hi tnrirn of j th Russian revotion, Vladimir Hourt- i seff. irnt him. iff, too. wns an i-r. :. !e ! thn. Ills crimp was that he lo. e l j-ius- ! ia. Ho was baz.ihed to Hib'-ria soon ; aft11" h enrue To i!n--:n to h ''!;' duMniM the wa r. bel ivi n g ; ha t all Km -si a u. cen thn?-'1 who h;ne a i ways foi.ght f.'.'s- : nn a :; ra r -1 3 ss iy. nin-t coi.:c j t' the aid or' :h- KnsMan p'op!-- aip'-t j thp arrn jaii'-e nwi olncf of the mili- i turv f-T'A--y of 'Tin any. w h r h is Ktrivinu' to Mjbtv the world. V'a-iiniir Hour; f j 1 1 -r thp brot h'T of the derm an rabinpt minister in Si- ROSIKA A$k: y .-NUiXf SCHWIMMER, V N" ';t KAISER'S I T " v "v J AGENT WHO : pT 7 J POSED a - AS PEACE V v ADVOCATE, ' : WHILE tV' iF BETRAYING J. S: 0 3 RUSSIA X'-w ,c' ! y v ? s v t w ! ! - 4 li " 1 ! ' r- i V I is. if W . 1 ivr p j ' y if t ? s V , " 1 ' i' i beria and acquainted himself with his views and activities. According to Bourtseff, who has unmasked ninny agents provocateurs, this same Spann, brother of a member of the German cabinet, is now back in Pefrograd free, directing German espionage in Russia. At the famous Moscow conference, Premier Kerensky, General Korniloff, General Alexieff and members of the Russian cabinet reviewed the condition of Russia with extraordinary frankness. They discussed the status of the army and military operations without restraint. re-straint. The reason why they were not afraid to divulge these secrets of the conference was that they were aware that Germany know all this belter than Russia knew, and they wanted Kussia to know. The German government, through its agents, took immediate ad van 1' a go of the absolute f reedom of the press and freedom of speech that came with tho revolution, and employed for their own purposes the consequences of the blunders blun-ders made by the people, who mistook license for liberty. Revolt Lets In New Evils. J Among the immigrants and Russian exiles who rushed to new Russia from different countries, from Switzerland, England, France, the I'nited States and Italy and the Scandinavian countries, there came a new mass of German agitators agi-tators and agents provocateurs, under the guise of revolutionists, internationalists internation-alists and so-called pacifist, who wanted want-ed to induce, the frv Russian people to do for Germany what the old regime was on the eve of doing they wante,! Ru-sia to make a .separate pea'-e with Gennanv. Thev demoralized tho Kns-sian Kns-sian army and injected poison into the organism of l nssiu. f roni which she is recovering with di f f ieub y. Kussia is bleeding in the grip of florin flor-in an espionage and pro German agitators, agi-tators, who advocate j-ea'-n with " r-mauy r-mauy at any price, knowing that the price is Russia's new liberty. The provisional pro-visional government of the Russian republic, re-public, headed by Kerensi:y. is rn n k i u tr f neroic ef fori s to 1 iqjji dntp the - nj of j ii e n f i rpg;. "ie and to 1 ) h e ra U 1 ; n i n i from the grip of l:ais''-is!n in different! riioiisep. Kiiin was betrayed during the war by tho old regime. Russ Officials in U. S. Accused. The ii pw regime is f ! gluing the ef fp'-ts df (irrinai) epicnage, wliich ha fortified itself find spread its activities everywhere. Tho bet ray a of Russia took pia.ee not onlv in Uusia. but also on Anicricjin "oil. The h'usMan govern-nip;.! govern-nip;.! iri now ipve-t iga t ing t)ie activitiev of a number of Kus.-ian off b-iaU who were in America during the war for the old Tin ssian government and who are charged nrt on,y with coloal graft and corrupt ion, but with the betrvaJ of Russia to German agents in this con ntry. liefore I left for Potrograd in May 1 had occasion to acquaint myself with a series of charges made against certain I of the Russian officials that revealed ' astounding facts and accounted fur many of Russia's reverses. Upon my ' arrival in Russia I di sen sued this subject sub-ject with Vladimir Bourtseff, who ha been styled "the Sherlock Holmes of the Russian revolution." lie familiarized familiar-ized me wit i adidtioiial facts, which he subsequently presented to J lor is Savin-koff, Savin-koff, the head of tho war department, ami to the department, of justice. Tho govern nie nt i in media! el y start ed an in-vestiga in-vestiga tiou and wit n esses were examined exam-ined by a. special commission appointed for that purpose. Russian Traitors Betray Secrets. From the ilocumcnta in Boursefl" poKsi'Bsiou it npi'dUH tlmt Ucnmin unl Aiislri.'in csjrioiujo had built ilnelf a nest among some ut' Hie Dienihers of tins Rus.sinu e()ni?nisBion in America wijieh was supervising the jmrehaso of war materialH for tlio liuF.sian i;overiunenl. Several member.s of tiio Kussian eoin-mifision eoin-mifision eIl by Hie, old government aie ciiaie'i with giaJ't an.l t.rejon, with the betrayal ot Uusrija upon an uu-jjrecefb.'nte't uu-jjrecefb.'nte't f-eale. ACCORDING TO THE WITNESSES, GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN AGENTS WORKED AS SECRETARIES OF CERTAIN CER-TAIN MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION COMMIS-SION AND RUSSIAN MILITARY SECRETS SE-CRETS WERE EETRAYED, INFORMATION INFOR-MATION CONCERNING MUNITION ORDERS WAS SOLD. THE DATES OF SHIPMENT WERE DIVULGED ATD WIRELESS NOTIFICATION WAS GIVEN CONCERNING THE START OF STEAMSHIPS CARRYING WAR MATERIALS FOR RUSSIA. THE TESTIMONY PRESENTED BY VLADIMIR VLAD-IMIR EOURTSEFF TO THE GOVERNMENT GOVERN-MENT SHOWED THAT GERMAN AGENTS ORGANIZED EXPLOSIONS IN MUNITION FACTORIES HERE, THAT WITH THE AID OF PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE RUSSIAN COMMISSION RUSSIAN WAR MATERIALS MATE-RIALS WERE SPOILED, THAT UNFIT UN-FIT . AND WORTHLESS SUPPLIES WERE SHIPPED AND THAT SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE RUSSIAN RUS-SIAN COMMISSION WORKED TOGETHER TO-GETHER WITH GERMAN REPRESENTATIVES REPRE-SENTATIVES IN THIS COUNTRY FOR A SEPARATE PEACE BETWEEN BE-TWEEN GERMANY AND RUSSIA. Th' revelatlonH eontruneij in the rjia-ter-al nibniitte.l by lionrt k-(T to tins Knf-sian government expose the maeh-iiiatioup maeh-iiiatioup of the former zar 's erv-aaM, erv-aaM, who woekeit han-l in linno with 'lerrnan agentu for I 1 1 i a ' s est rur-.tioll (Continued on Pago Five.) i i 11)5311 BETRAYED BY (Continued from Page One.) and this probably cost .Russia countless thousands of lives. One of the chief offenders, according to the charges made by witnesses now in Ru sia, was Colonel Vladimir Nck-rasoff, Nck-rasoff, a member of the Russian commission, com-mission, who returned to Russia some time a0. Xekrasoff lived at the Belle-.daire Belle-.daire hotel here and occupied two other apartments in New York. One of the witnesses testified that one of his ?part-nionts ?part-nionts was kept in the name of Rosika Schwimmer, where Colonel Xekrasoff and Count von RernstoriF. then German ambassador to the United States, met several times. It will be remembered that Rcsika Schwimmer, an Austrian pacifist advocate, was the originator of Ihe Ford peae expedition. It was Mine. Scowimmer who induced Henry Ford, the idealist with millions of dollars, dol-lars, to finance the expedition. he misled and deceived him' bv assuring hi m that she had documents from the neutral governments to the effect that thev were eager for the calling of a conference and that they would participate partici-pate in sueh a conference. I was with the Ford expedition as a guest of Mr. Ford, and within the first few days I realized that Henry Ford was the victim of a bold adventuress, adven-turess, that Mme. SchwimmeT had no such documents as she described to Mr. Ford and .that she was working for German and Austrian interests, rather than in the interest of a durable peace. Rosika Schwimmer Dupes Ford. It was pathetic to see Mr. Ford, whom I regard as one of the noblest idealists of our age, when it dawned upon him that something was wrong with the expedition. 1 was the first to declare to Mr. Ford that I would leave the expedition ex-pedition upon reaching Stockholm. I felt that I could not be identified with au expeditiou whose moving spirit, Rosika Schwimmer, was disguising behind be-hind the noble ideals of Mr. Ford and his purest motives, a scheme which was intended to serve not only as a cloak for her own selfish interests, but perhaps per-haps also one of the groups of belligerents belliger-ents against another. Henry Ford was the first man to leave the expedition at Christiania. I was his first guest to leave it. The testimony of one of the witnesses in Petrograd against Colonel Nekrasoff to the effect that Von Bernstorff, then German ambassador to the United States, and Colonel Nekrasoff, a member mem-ber of the Russian commission in America, met several times with Mme. Schwimmer in 1915, casts a very strong ) suspicion of Mme. Schwimmer 's activities activi-ties in this country and her peace propaganda. prop-aganda. The bringing together of representatives representa-tives of enemy governments is more than strange. But in the light of the disclosures brought out in the charges against Colonel Nekrasoff, that he betrayed be-trayed Russian military secrets to the German and Austrian authorities, the incident assumes serious proportions. Empress Pictured As Traitress. A shadow is thus cast on the Ford peace expedition, which was engineered by Rosika Schwimmer, perhaps to serve both German and Russo-German interests. George Lurick, an Esthonian, who lived in New York and is at present in Petrograd, is one of the numerous witnesses against several members of the Russian commission. Mr. Lurick declared that Colonel Nekrasoff one day sent his assistant, an honest, decent and reliable man, to one of the munitions muni-tions factories in Baltimore working for Russia. He gave to him the following fol-lowing instructions: "I know that you are a Russian patriot, but you must reject the entire order, even If it meets with every requirement re-quirement in accordance with specifications. specifi-cations. ' ' When his assistant endeavored to raise objections, Colonel Xekrasoff interrupted in-terrupted him. "What is t ho use of arguing, my friend?" said the colonel. ' Reject the entire order, and t hat will settle the matter. It makes no difference, anvway these munitions will never reach the Russian front. The war is unpopular in Russian govptn-mental govptn-mental spheres. We must lose it. Our empress, Alexandra Feodorovna, wants us to lose. Rasputin is also rn favor of Russia 's defeat. He is also for the Germans. ' ' . Bourtseff has information that Colonel Nekrasoff received large sums of money for depriving the Russian army of war supplies at a time when it was retreating from Galicia because of lack of munitions. It is understood that many explosions explo-sions in munition factories took place as a result of arrangements between members of the Russian commission and agents of the German government in this country, and that ships carrying carry-ing ammunition for Russia were thus blown up; that orders for munitions were given to factories directed by Aus-trians, Aus-trians, Germans and Hungarians. The result of these arrangements is easily surmised. - . How Nekrasoff and others worked hand in hand with agents of the German Ger-man and Austrian governments, how a young woman named Alexandra Miro-lubskaya, Miro-lubskaya, now in Petrograd, came to this country at the request of Nekrasoff, Nekra-soff, posed as his sister and then acted as intermediary between Nekrasoff and the German agents who bought RussShu military secrets and organized plots against Russia, will be told in the next installment. |
