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Show RUSS REDS UNASKED SMI PAPER Negotiate With Russian Traitor Who Became a Capitalist in Germany, STOCKHOLM, Dec. lo. While the Bolsheviki government at Petrograd is. proclaiming its intention of conducting all negotiations openly ami is declaring its hostility to all monarchies, including Germany, Phillip Scheidemann,' the German Ger-man majority Socialist leader and strong supporter of his government, is holding secret conferences at Stockholm with the newly appointed ' ' workmen and soldier government' plenipotentiary aDd representative in Stockholm," Vorov-sky, Vorov-sky, also known as Orloffsky, ilerr Scheidemann arrived hero last Sunday and went to a room which had been engaged for him by a former Russian subject named Parvus, now a German subject. The secret of his presence pres-ence here and of his conference with Vorovsky was kept so well that it was only learned today. A further interesting light is thrown on the situation by the fact that Trot.ky, Bolsheviki foreign minister, whoso Stockholm representative is now working through Parvus a-s intermediary, inter-mediary, den minced the same Parvus in a paper he conducted in Paris, as a triutor. The Social Demokraten, which publishes pub-lishes a long expose of the affair, declares de-clares that when the Hutch -Scan dina-via dina-via conference was endeavoring to bring about a general democratic peace the Leninites did their utmost to op pose it. "lint now, when it is a question of a separate pence," says the paper, "with every possibility of an imperialistic peace at, Russia 's cost first of all and then at Die cost of the whole western tlnmoc.racy this 'traitor is invited to Stockholm by the Bnishevj ki as the proletariat '? reiii esen tati e. The Social -J Jem oh ra tn recn lis t lie German minority .Socialists' recent attacks at-tacks on the efforts of the innjoritv Socialists to represent tho German government gov-ernment as desi rin an In mora ble nnd f democratic peace, with the right of all nations to decido their own destiny, and says w i i h ret e pence to the pr '- ent j Boisheviki secret conference witli Scheb ! ijeniniin : j " Tlii milliner of con join i ng I w o j political pa rue with smdi radieallv di f f c i'eji t, princi pie - is i rrc oncei va Id', ' exc.-pi on t lie a - mi nt d ion of mora 1 ! bfMi'r.rcptcv t r r j at least one and n f tor wliti t the last we,-; h v taught us lOTicerniiic the- Bolsheviki met hod, it is not. difficult to -fc wlierc sii'di b.T n km pt e y u i read v t'xi ts. Porvii!' v.-ho acted as int"nne-ii;jrv 'between S'-liei il e.ina n n and Voro s k v, j ioert as a ma.iori ty So'da list and en -ifvr the, (U'nriun unv' mmeri t 's cont'i lience U) -uch an extent, that he wa j ;ennn? the i--i :uci, t io;i ei at t lie lime of the hi'-T unvei nmiMjt change.; ;i, ; tjl.lr. irbn-iei' ot' finance. e v, ; s l.orn : a Kn-i;.n .-ubje.-t b ;t b-ft W.;ia s-:n'- i'-'J"- ""ai'e inillion M:'o-,iLdi Strain anJ, core i -lini'G in Germany I and ''-,'"'''' a G "-ma ii -nl,jfct -liutl .-' ! after fr.r oi:: b'-.'k ot.ine v.iir. |