Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-15
SOVIET HEADS PLANNED
TO MAKE RUSSIA VASSAL
Sold to Germany Commercial Control of Nation for Five
Years After the War-Berlin Financial
Interests Given Sway
Washington, Sept. 16.

The part played by the German Inn
Bolsheviki movement, the care taken by
the German military authorities to pre-
vent spread among their own people OF
the socalstic preaching of their Rus
sian tools and the plans laid for German
control of Russia, economically and
financially, during and after the war,
feature the disclosures in the second
instalment of the sensational series of
secret documents which the American
Government is making public
Copies of the documents. given out
last night carry the file numbers of the
RciChsbahk, or of the German goncAl
staff, and in some instances notations
by Lenine or TrotsKy, the Bolshcvik
leaders. now shown to have been in the
pay of Germany since long before they
overthrow Russia's new democratic gov
ernment and virtually turned the coun-
trv over to the Teutons. They are il
Illuminating explanatory notes by Edgar
Sisson, Of the committee on public in
formation. who directed the investiga-
tion which resulted in the disclosures.
one Of the Reichbank memoranda.
dated last January, announced to thl
Commissar of Foreign Affairs G.oninc)
that 10000, 5000 rublCs of gold has been
nIac,d to the credit at Stockholm of the
representatives of the Commissars to
cover the cost of Red Guards and agita-
tors. Another of n few days later tells
Of a credit of 5000, 900 rubles for the
assistant naval commissar in the Far
Fast. who is entrusted with the task of
CARRYING off or destroying the great
American and japanese stores Of war
material at NladivostOk-a scheme that
rrohably was well under way when the
landing Of American and Allied forces
at Nladivostok ended the sway Of the
Bolsheviki there
A resolution adopted by the German
commercial banks. under tho auspices of
the Reichbank. outlines an elaborate pro-
gram for control of Russia by Germany
ana the barring VI AHitl 'ta ana the
Allies from the Russian commercial and
industrial field after the war What has
happened to this scheme is not def
riteiy known, but it is suggested that
it may be the subject of one of the
secret sections OF the German Bolshevik
treaty.
How Lcnine and TrOtsky were be-
traying their Socialist friends, along
with Russia. is disclosed by sharp
note to Lenine from the NaChrichtcn
bureau demanding to know what steps
he would take to make good his per-
sonal promise that soCialstic and agi-
rational literature would not be Circu-
lated among German troops. TrOtsl,y
wrote on the margin Il ask to discuss
il L. T"
The concluding document of the in
stallment is a German warning on
January 30 to Lenine, that unknown
agitatOrs We're circulating propaganda
telling in advance of the plans of the
Bolsheviki to openly surrender to the
! Germans. as they actually did later.
The documents show what rewards
| financial and Industrial interests de-
manded in return for the German sup
port of the Bolsheviki. And they show
| how the Bolshevik leaders BETRAYED
| their own followers and abandoned the
| preaching Of their social revolut or
| wherever the Germans ordered that il
| should be abandoned.