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Show MOBILIZATION A NEW TROTZKY MOVE WASHINGTON, July 24. The mobilization mo-bilization of the Russian army, as announced an-nounced in reports today from Moscow Mos-cow via Amsterdam is not regarded as a matter of serious moment by state department officials. In some quarters it was regarded as simply another effort ef-fort to raise tho army which Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik minister of war, declared to be the only solution to the military chaos in Russia. The suggestion was' made that the Russian government might send its 1 new army to drive out the allied and I American forces In the Mourmansk peninsula, but it was explained that I this would be almost impossible as it " would mean the transportation of the ' wnr 800 miles over extremely difficult territory and without means of supply. sup-ply. Tho Bolshevik assured tho German government that Its own army would ' protect the German embassy in Moscow Mos-cow when Germany asked to be allow-led allow-led to send battalions to that city after ' the assassination of Count von Mir- I bach. At that time tho government had I no army except on paper and it is be- I lieved hero that the mobilization on I July 7 was to make good the pledge ta I Germany. I |