The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-16
i NITED STATES
HAS PROOF THAT
'BOLSHEVIKI ARE
GERMAN AGENTS
Department of Public In
formation Makes Public
Amazing Documents
GERMAN GOLD PAID
LENINE TROTZKY
Revolution Actually Was
Arranged By German
General Staff
GERMAN GENERAL
"DEFENDING" CITY
Paid German Agents Be-
trayed Russia At
Brest-Litovsk
GENERAL
"DEFENDING" CITY
CRv Assoclared Press.l

Washington, Sept. 16.-Proofs re-
moving any doubts that Lenine and
Trotzky, the Bolsheviki leaders are
paid German agents-if indeed any
doubts remain-are laid before the
world today by the United States
government in the first installment
Of an amazing series of official docu-
ments discIoses through the COM
mittee on public information.
Secured in Russia by American
agents. these documents not only
show how the German government
through it's imperial bank paid It's
gold to Lenine, TrOtz.ly and their
immediate associates to betray Rus
sia into deserving her allies, but give
added proofs. IL any be necessary,
that Germany had perfected ,;rlleg
plans for war of world conquest,
long before the assassinations at
Sareyejo, which as the world is now
convinced conveniently furnished her
pretext.
These documents further show
that before the world war was four
months old, and moro han two years
before the United States was drawn
into 1t, Germany already was setting
afoot her plans to mobilize destruc-
tive agents aad observers" to cause
explosions, strikes and outrages IN
this country and planned ina en-
ploynent of anarchists and escaped
criminals" for the purpose.
New Record In Treachery.
Almost ranking in their sensa-
tional nature with the notorious
note proposing war
with Mexico and Japan upon the
F11I fret PiVnn
to the world through: the Associated
Press. these documents lay bare q
new strata OF Prussian intrigue, a
new view of the workings of kultur
to disrupt the allies; standing be-
tween the world and Kaiserism.
They disclose new story of human
treachery for gold which might al
most we'll be described without
sacrilege as placing its perpetrators
on a, pedestal with Judas and his
thirty pieces of silver.
The intrigue appears to have been
carried down to the last detail of ar
rangement with typical German sys-
tenn.
Not only do the disclosures prove
that Lenine, Trot3ky and their band
are paid German agents. They
show that the Bolsheviki revolution
which threw Russia into such an
orgy of murder and excesses as the
world seldom has seen, actually was
by the German general
staff They show how the pasa
agents OF Germany betrayed Russia
an the, Brest- Litovsk peace" con-
Ference How German staff officers
have been received by the
as military advisers, how
they have acted as spies upon the
OF the nations with Whlch
Russia. was allied or at peace, now
they effectually have directed the
foreign, domestic and &C.
policy wholly in the interest
Of Germany and to the shame ana
degradation Of Russia.
They show a picked German COM
was detailed to defend
Petrograd against the German army
and an extent of German intrigue
and domination almost beyond the
realm Of imagination.
Original Documents.
Originals of. documents. photo
graphs OF originals and typewriter
some of them marked
very secret" or private" and many
of them bearing the annotations Of
he BeIsheviEi leaders themselves,
some of them containing references
10 "Comrade Trotzky" or .Conrade
Leninen comprise the damning rec
ord Some Of the originals, 1t is
shown, although deposited in the
secret archives of the BolsheyilSi,
we're required to be returned later to
of the German gem
aral stan in Petrograd that they
night be destroyed. The BolSheviki
eaders, themselves informed their
comrades" that the German gov
srnment had required the return of
he order OF the German Imperial
oank depositing 50,00O,000 gold. rub
les in Stockholm bank for Lenine
and Trotzky, and that at the same
time the accounts of the bank had
oeen audited" to conceal the pay
nents.
Copies Of the documents carry the
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