The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1918 THE KAISER DISMISSES TROTZKY

Taihape Daily Times, 21 August 1918, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1918 THE KAISER DISMISSES TROTZKY

(With which is Incorporated The Tflihape Post and WaTnmmo News).

The extraordinary intelligence came through yesterday that Germany is to abandon do B'olsheviks. This was decided upon at the recent conference between the Kaiser and Emperor Karl, at which leading generals and politicians were present. The .information is of little consequence at this stage in Russia's co .diticn. it only goes to clearly discover die fact that the leaders of Bolshevism were working for the German Emperor, were hi German pay, and that they are the most despicable, the vilest vipers on the category of traitors to their country the world has ever had any experience of. What does it say for a Kaiser of Kultur, who enlists the scum of the earth, mere circus tumblers, in his compaigns of murder and rapine; in his schematism of blood lust, in* his campaigns of ravishment of homes .and country; in his pesky plots to sacrifice millions of lives in the most unholy, the most diabolical crimes that it is possible for the mind of man to conceive? By a scheme of lying and deception, with the help of circus tumblers, the Kaiser has, by his own admission, sought to entrap and enthral all Russia, to subjugate and enslave the Russian pc'ople, and ho had so far succeeded as to commence to send his “Press Gangs" dmougst them, conscripting them into his armies. By force of circumstances he was compelled to disclose what his real interest in Russia was before the country was ripe for it, and the Russian people have resented it, and have given him and his Bolshevik circus men a rather unexpected imperative notice to quit. A conference of Emperors has now abandoned the vile tools, Lenin and Trotsky, who will probably get the well-earned reward of traitors, the assassin’s most determined attentions. Then, we can now realise that Bolshevism is one of the tools of the Hohenzollcrns, brought into use to destroy nations that cannot bo conquered in the good old fashion, by honourable force of arms. We do not desire to anticipate history, but we can easily imagine how Germany and Kaiscrisrn will figure when the unbiassed historian has finished his work upon this great outburst of diabolism. This is not the least of German failures by any means, and we are inclined to think that the conference of Emperors was more concerned with the Russian situation than with any other aspect of the war. Germany it is fairly plain, was resigned to losing the war on the western front so long as gains in Russia could be retained, and now that the eastern front is continuing to loom up out of the Russian chaos and blackness something desperate becomes necessary. Germany, has no army to re-establish an eastern front; conscripted Russians could not be depended upon, but the Hun mind, fertile in subtlely and cunning, invited the Austrian Emperor to meet the Kaiser with his generals and politicians and prevailed upon him to place the whole AustroHungarian armies under German control. Turkey and Bulgaria were not invited to the conference, but they .are to be invited to give over all their military and naval forces to be used just as the Kaiser wills. It is obvious that this unity of command is intended as an effort to save the neck of Germany against the Russians. The near future will disclose whether Austrians, Turks and Bulgars will submit to this last marshalling of their few able men to fight for Germany; leaders may be willing, but the spirit of the armies is disastrously weak. The strain upon armies and people is ;at breaking point and this last reptile Hun straw may, not improbably, cause the -whole military and political structure he is building to collapse

and completely pVerwWia tke Kaiser, and his machinations. The campaign of corruption was a blunder, as it caused false hopes to be fatally built thereon, and there is good reason for believing that a unification of command that brings the armies of Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria under the command of the revolvers of the Kaiser will prove no less a blunder. Any line from Roumania to the B’altic consisting almost, solely of a mixture of Austrians. Hungarians, Turks and ;Bulgar?—elements' which- are in con- ; flint', each other and which have already lost all hopes of any sort of victory that can prove Sof ,'value to them —has all the possibilities of being found to be a very “rotten stick” directly any strain is put upon it. Division of the Austrian Empire has commenced in the Allied recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks, and it is almost inconceivable that other unnatural unions, brought about by force, will be sundered and that a reconstitution of nations will not result. Unity of command, unfortunately for the Hohenzollcrns, will certainly not result in uniformity of purpose, for it is already too •well known that Turkey and Bulgaria have turned against their Prussian Master, and that Austria and Hungary arc in a state of hopelessness. However, it is the very last chance, weak and uncertain as it is, that Germany has of trying to save the Hohenzollern throne; can it reach any stage of military importance in time to attempt a stemming of the combined forces of the Allies, including the Czecho-Slovaks, which arc rapidly converging from various quarters on the heart of Russia? It is very doubtful indeed whether equipment of such a force is possible. Turkey and Bulgaria are bankrupt and quite dependent upon Germany; Austria will need every gun at her disposal to hold back the Italians from breaking a way through that leads to Vienna. seems that the unity of command sought by Germany is solely for the purpose of trying to establish an eastern line, but any line composed df such incompatible elements must be fore-doomed. , Eastern possessions were- all that Germany had left, to con-, tinue the war for; all hope, of success on western battlefields has fled, and what better fortune can the Kaiser hope for with Japanese, Americans, British, Russians. Czecho-Slovaks, Indans and several lesser peoples, including Ukrainians and Georgians, marching victoriously across Russia from Archangel, or across Siberia from Vladivostock, China and India? Before abandoning the Bolsheviks Germany no doubt instructed Lenin and Trotsky to heap all the 9 indignities and cruelties possible upon official and civilian people of Allied countries resident in Russia. This is one of the favourite means of perpetrating the blackest of crimes while avoiding all responsibility for their committal. The chief aim of the Allies in Russia is not to reestablish a fighting line, but to completely wipe out 1 all power Germany may have acquired in Asia and Russia.