The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-16
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Documents Show How Germans
Bought Lenine And IrotZky-
Gold From Imperial Bank.

Washington, Sept 14.-Proofs re
moving any doubts that Lenine ant
Trotzky, the Bolshevik leaders, are
paid German agents-if indeed any
doubts remain-are laid before the
world today by the United State!
Government in the first lnstallmen1
of an amazing series of official docu
ments disclosed through the Com
mittee on Public Information.
Secured in Russia by American ag
ents, these documents not only show
how the German Government through
its Imperial Bank paid its gold tC
Lenine, Trotzky and their immediate
associates to betray Russia into de-
serting her Allies, but give added
proofs, if any be necessary, that Ger
many had perfected plans for wal
of world conquest, long before the
assassinations at Sarevejo, which as
the world is now convinced, convent
emily furnished her preteXt.
/ These documents further show that
before the world war was four mon
| tbs old, and more than two years be-
fore the United States was drawn in
to it, Germany was already setting
afoot her plans to mobilize deStruc-
! tive agents and observers, to cause
| explosions, strikes and outrages in
this country and planned the en-
ployment of anarchists and escaped
! criminals for the purpose.
( Almost ranking in their sensation
al nature with the notorious thinner
! mann note proposing war by Mexico
and Japan upon the United States,
which was first given to the world
/ through the Associated Press, these
documents lay hare a new strata of
/ Prussian intrigue, a new view of the
workings of Kultur to disrupt the
! Allies, standing betwees the world
and kaiserism. They disclose new
story OF human treachery for gold
which might almost well be described
without sacrilege as placing its per
petrators on a pedestal with Judas
and his II 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. TrotZky and their
band are paid German agents, they
show that the Bolshevik revolution
which threw Russia into such orgy
of murder and excesses as the world
seldom has seen, actually was ar
ranged by the German General
Staff. They show how the paid ag-
ents of Germany betrayed Russia at
the Brest-Litovsk peace" confer
ence; how German staff officers ser
cretly have been received by tJs
Bolsheviki as military advisers; how
they have acted as spies upon the EN-
bassies of the nations with which
Russia was allied or at peace: how
they effectually have directed the
DolSueN lhi IoieiSu, uoAiCStiS anu CIV
nomic policy wholly in the interest
of Germany and the shame and deg
radiation of Russia.
They show how a picked German
| commander was detailed to defend
! Petrograd against the German army
and an extent of German intrigue and
| ri in oh
of imagination.
! Originals of documents, photo
graphs of originals and typewriter
! circulars, some of them marked very
secret or private" and many of
! them bearing the annotationS of the
! Bolsheviki leaders themselves; some
of them containing references to
"Comrade TrotZky" or "Comrade
Lenine' comprise the damning rec
ord. Some of the originals, it is
| shown, although deposited in the Sc
cret archives of the Bolsheviki, were
required to be returned later to rep
resentatives of the German General
Staff in Petrograd that they might
| be destroyed But evidences of them
remained in the fabric of roguery
and into the vacancies they fit per
fectly. The Bolsheviki leaders, them
selves, informed their comrades
| that the German Government had re-
| quired the return of the order for the
German Imperial Bank depositing so,
| 100000 gold roubles in Stockholm
| bank for Lenine and TrotZky. and at
| bank had been audited" to conceal
! the payments.