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Show Intrigue Of Long Standing Reported 1 Intense Recruiting Goes on in Germany for I Months. IN RUSS UNIFORM Germans Deny Breaking I the Peace; Letts Statement Denied. I jgt LONDON. nCf. 13 A dispatch to the A Manchester Guardian from Berlin re-1 ports that the Russo-Oerman Intrigue Is of very long standing, an eastern j adventure having been in the minds of military reactionaries in Berlin .inrp s the beginning of the year It will he remembered, the dispatch states, that . the far-reaching possibility of such a measure almopt tempted indepem!. nr action on the part of the German armies In the east at the official moment mo-ment of the ratification of the peac treaty in the national assembly at W I mar For months, the correspondent l states, intense recruit ins for the army in the Baltic has been going on in Germany not only for the so-called "Iron division" and other German detachments, de-tachments, but also for nominall Rus-EL Rus-EL sian forces. Russian officers, often Russian only in uniform, are a familiar : sight In Berlin and elsewhere through- ; out the countr Recruits, larcely from south Germany, are continual! passing through by r-iilwav. Many ol these Tear Russian unlto-ms. but most of them are in the German field grey, with Russian shoulder straps and i cockades. Bf:RLlN, Saturday, Oct 11. --(By The Associated Press.) An of f i lall ; statement is published here denying formally the allegation in the Lettish L appeal to the entente thai 'inMn D troops in the Baltic provinces have Boone everything possible io support f Bolshevism and have attacked the Letts from the rear. The German rejoinder re-joinder declares that this statement ' Is contrary to the truth and is an ab- .horcnt measure of agitation against! Germany Germany has not broken the peat it Is declared, but on the contrary has I done everything to enforce tin tennt of peace in the case of misled troop-l troop-l in a portion of the Baltic provinces I . It is a matter of record, it Is declared, 'hat the Baltic troops (German) have mk not b??n the attackers, inn theii r turn to Germany has been delayed and hindered by hostile arts of the Letts and Esthonians. |