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Show BQLSHEVIK1 PLAN Alliance With Germany Proposed Pro-posed to Assist in Conquest Con-quest of French KOLN'O, Poland. Aug H. (By Courier to Dlottowcn, East Prussia. i By The Associated Press ) Soviet Russia intends to seek an allegiance with Germany to make war on France, and If it succeeds, to undertake a con-( QUOat of England und eventually America, officials of the TJolahevlkl regime told The Associated Press to-, I day. When the Polish war, considered a purely Russian buslneyp la finished, a note will be sent to Berlin, they de-l clared. demanding permission to trans-port trans-port troops across Germany for thoj French campaign On refusal, which j la taken for granted, a revolution Will be Instituted in Germany, the success of which bolshovikl asserted they were prepared to assure by force of arms. FRENCH TO RI Mltn With those enflr. in view. RussTan soldiers who have been told all v.ars shall cease with victory over the: Poles are being subjected to propaganda propa-ganda which declares Frenchmen will I be shot on sight, but thai the Germans Ger-mans are friends who soon will be comrades. T)u e ;.dml.slons nave, been corroborated by information! I gathered by the correspondent in con-! venations wth German representatives representa-tives of East Prussian newspapers who interviewed Bolshevikl army chiefs. I ' Bolshevik! leaders declared that within with-in three weeks they will completely; control Poland. Including the Polish corridor, which they intend to occupy., leaving a ten-kilometer neutral zone-about zone-about Danxlg. When the correspondent arrived here, erosisng the border at Czervon-oy Czervon-oy the aid of Poles and a wagon filled I with straw, he called on the Polish soviet commissary who recently wns established in offices by the Bolshe- MM ii. una. : . Han Schamewaky, the commissary,' la a Polish Jew with protruding eyes, land blonde mustache, and wears a white collar. He acknowledged the( 'correspondent's greeting and then sat1 idown to dinner: Ignoring the Ameri-! jean. At the commissary 's side, a Rus-. slan soldier armed with a revolver BtOOd Watch and all conversation waa "interpreted to him in Russian. The commissary's asv.: t.ni. a f i :..-r G r-, r-, man officer, said this Russian was a soviet representative who watched alii Lousiness transacted by ScharnewskS and reported to the soviet central government, gov-ernment, although he never Interfered' I with the commissary's procedure. I II V, III IM V MEAL. When the commissary finished eat-: I ing his meal of soup, steak smothered i with onions, potatoes and beer, he ! 3 I L-ol m Vilj n(flii irn.llnp Ihn rnr. I respondent to wait. After an hour he! returned, demanded the correspondent's correspond-ent's passports which he gave a cursory cur-sory inspection and then returned to his office. After waiting two hours, the correspondent corre-spondent wandered about, talking to, Inhabitants, among whom were many Jews He was told thev did not know, whether th-y were going under Rus-l slan, Polish or German rule, but Raid they had heard rumors there- would i be a plebiscite in which the people; would be permitted to vole whether! they desired to adhere to Russia or Germany. Inhabitants declared such' a vote Would be overwhelmingly fori Germany. Everywhere the people asked for news of the war and other news of the world, eying all Intelligence cants from the German border through eon-versatldna eon-versatldna with German guards, who sorm-timea gave them German newspapers. news-papers. Thero is no commerce with the rest of Russia by telephone, telegraph or railway and Inhabitants of villages .along the frontier have been existing on the products of the farms. REPQRTER DEPARTS. They declare that unles. oromerce lis soon revived with Germany they will experience suffering. hen the correspondent, after sev-leral sev-leral hours, was unable to so Schar-newsy Schar-newsy again, he prepared to depart. but an orderly directed him 10 remain I niu'.her hour, by which time a hlnh. '.official was expected Ho ignored the order. Villages about Kolno appeared 'prosperous enough, although peasants were ragged, barefooted and despondent despond-ent end prese nted a poverty stricken i appearance In the fields were fat cat-, J lie tended by girls, while boys and 'women were harvesting wheat. Along, the road were many iron crucifixes at wayside shrines at which the pious i ! populace worshipped. In Kolno there 13 less evidence ofj the recent war than in the towns ofi East Prussia, where broken statues. scarred houses and ruins of buildings I 'still bear witness to the damage done! by the Rusjslan Invaders In 1914 oo SHE SUP NOTHING. (Bj International News serv1ce.) BOSTON Is politeness a. lost art among municipal employes7 Read on: Signaling to a woman who was at-' tempting to cross Tremont street dl-j agonall) thf traffic policeman at the, W inter street, corner drew near, and tl en, aa he stemmed the flood of auto-tiioi'lles auto-tiioi'lles he suavely remarked: "Everyone must cross at the same place, madam I will hold back the automobiles for you I would like you tc ahoW that you appreciate our efforts." ef-forts." Tho woman continued to say nothing. |
