Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-17

marginal indprsements, Referred to the commission for fighting counter revolution" Demanded documents of M. Skripnik, and an illegal comment by N. Gorbunov, Lenin's other govern lment secretary. E The letter is directed to Lenin. Did Skripnik get the docu- lments? I do not know.
 The letter is remarkable otherwise for the arrest of Captain Konshin men toned is a German officer Lieut.. Otte who appears elsewhere as an agent in the German dOuble-crossing intrigue in the Ukraine, What was behind the mystery of his arrest? What was his fate?
 CVKD No, 323-2 Inclosures)
 Protocol
 This protocol, written by us on the 2d of November. 1917, in duplicate, with the consent of the council of peo- ples commissaTs, is taken from the department of secret service of the Petrograd district and the former de- partment of police (Okrana) on in- structions Of the representatives of the German general staff in Petrograd.
 1-Circular of the German general staff No 421, dated June g, 1914. con- Ecerning the immediate mobilization of all industrial enterprises in Germany. and
 2-Circular No. 93, dated November 2S. 1914, of the general staff of the high sea fleet, concerning the sending into enemy countries of special agents for the destruction of war supplies and materials.
 The above noted circulars were given over under signed receipt into the secret service department of the German staff in Petersburg.
 Authorized by the council of peo- ple's eommissars.
 F. Zalkind, E. Polivanoff.
 Illegible, but maybe Mekanoshin. A. Joffe.
 The circulars Nos. 421 and 93 men, tioned in this protocol and also one copy of this protocol. were received on the 3d of November, 1917. By the secret service department of the Berman general staff in Petro- grad-HenTich. Adjutant.
 NOTE-The circulars inclosed are in German and are as follows: Ger. General Staff, Central Alp theiiung, Section M, No (blank). Der lin. Circular of June 9, 1914.)
 To BezirkscOmmendanten:
 Within 24 hours of the receipt of this circular you are to inform all in dustrial concerns by wire that the docr .ments with industrial mobilization plans and with registration forms be opened, such as are referred to in the circular of the commission of Count vOn Waldersee and Canrivi of June 27, 1887.
 No. 421, Mobilization section. (2-Generar Staff of the High Sea Fleet, No. 9S.)
 Circular of Nov. 2S, 1914.
 To Marineagenturen and Flottenverei- nen:
 You are to mobilize immediately all destruction agents and observers in l hose commercial and military ports in Canada and America where munitions are being loaded on ships going to Russia, France and England. where .nere are storehouses of such munk tiOns. and where fighting units are stationed. It is necessary to hire through third parties, who stand in no relation to the official representatives of German agents for arranging ex piosions on. ships bound for enemy countries, and for arranging delays, embroilments and difficulties during the loading, dispatch and unloading ( ships For this purpose we are espe- cially recommending to your attention leaders gangs, among whom there are many anarchists and escaped crim- inals, and that you get in touch with German neutral shipping officers as a means of observing agents of enemy countries who are receiving and ship ping the munitions.
 Money required for the hiring or bribing of persons necessary for the designated purpose will be placed at your disposal at your request | Nachrichten Bureau of the General Staff of the High Sea Fleet.-Koe- nig
 1 NOTE-Both the circulars bear the cancelled notation that the German secret service at Petrograd had re- ceived them. signed, Agasfer (the ci- pher signature of Major Luberts. head of the bureau, as will be shown in document No. 5)
 The German intent here was to re- move from the records of the old Rus- sian government the evidence. first, that Germany was beginning in June, l 1914, it's active preparations for the var that surprised the world in Au- gust, 1914, and, second, to remove the evidence of its responsibility for in-
 endiarism and explosions in the Unit ed States, a country with which Ger many was then at peace. The result was to give new evidence of the proof Cf the charges. ms
 Have original of protocol, and have | the printed circulars.
 Document No. 4.-(G. G. S., Nachrich-
 ton bureau, Section R, No 35), Jan.
 IT, 1918.
 To the Commisscr of Foreign Affairs: The section has received exact in- formation that the leaders of the sO- cislist party now ruling Russia, through Messrs. Fuerstenburg and Rai dek. are iD correspondence with l Messrs. Scheidemann and Parvus re- garding the destruction of the traces Of the business relations of the party with the imperial government We also know that this demand was caus- cd hv the dfmand of leading groups of German socialists, who saw in the q A. n