Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-18

= SERIES OF communications between
- German imperial government and
- Russian bolshevist government and
hotween the oolsheviki themselves and
also the report thereon made to Georse
Crcel by Edgar Sisson, the commit
tees special representative in Russia
during the winter OF 1sl7-lS, have
bean made public by the committee on
public information.
These documents show that she
present heads OF the bolshevist gov
trnment--Lenipe and Trotzky and
their associates--are German agents.
They show that the bolshevist revo-
luton was arranged fo= by the Ger
man great general staff and financed
,bv the German Imperial Bank and
other German financial institutions
They show that the treaty OF Brest-
Litvosk was \ betrayal of the Russian
people BY the German agents, Lenlho
and Trotzky, that a German picked
commander vas chosen TO defend
Petrograd against the Germans; that
German officers have been secretly
received BY tha bolsheviSt government
AZ militay ad Users, as spies upon the
embassies of RussiaS allicss as officers
in the Russian army, and as directors
OF the bolshevist military, foreign. ana
domestic policy. They show. in short,
that the present bolshevist government
is not a Russian government at all
but a German government acting
solely in the interests of Germany and
bttraying the Russian people, as II be-
trays Russia's natural allies, for the
benefit of the imperial German gov
eminent alone.
And they show also that the boil
shevist leaders. for the same German
imperial ends, have equally betrayed
the working classes OF Russia whom
they pretend 70 represent.
The documents are some seventy II
number. Many are originals, ammo
tated by bolshevist officials. The 9TH
ers are photographs of originals
showing ammo. atoms. And they cor
roborate a third set OF typewritttn cir
culars. (see appendix iater) of which
only two ori girals are possessed but
all of which fit perfectly into the
whole pattern OF German intrigue and
German guilt.
The first document is a photograph
of a rport male to the bolshevist lead
ers by two of their assistants. inform
ing them that, in accordance with
their instructions, there had been re-
moved from the archives Of the Rus
sain ministry Of justice the order Of
the German imperial Bank allowing
money to Comrades Lenine, Trotzky,
and others for the propaganda OF
peace in Russia; and that, at the
Same time, all the books of bank
in stockholm had been audited TO
corceal the payment of money to Len
inc. TrotzSy, and their associates by
order Of the German Imperial Bank.
This report is endorsed by Lenine,
with his initials, for deposit in the
secret department Of the bolshevist
files. And the authenticity Of the re-
port is supported by Document No. ,,
which is the original of a report sent
by a German general staff representa-
tive to the bolshevist leaders, warning
them that he has just arrested an
agent who had in his possession the
original order Of ne German Imperial
Bank referred to in Document No. l,
and pointing out that evidently at
me proper time steps were not taken
to destroy the above mentioned docu-
ments."
Documet No. is the original proto-
col signed by several bolshevist lead
ers and dated Nov. >, 1917, showing
that ION instructions OF the represent
sktfxes of the German general staff in
I,etrograd'' and with the consent Of
The council of peoples commissars.
which Trohzky and Lenine were the
heads, two discriminating German cir
cliars had also been taken from the
department of secret service Of the
Petrograd district" and given to the
secret service department of the Ger
man general staff in Petrograd. On
the bottom of the protocol the German
adjutant acknowledges receipt Of the
two discriminating circulars with his
cipher signature. And to complete the
evidence, the circulars are themselves
penciied with the cipher signature Of
the head OF the German secret service
bureau.
These two circulars apparently had
been obtained by some Russian agent
in Germany and transmitted to Russia.
The German general staff evidently
wished to get them back again in or
der to destroy them. BY the order Of
the German general staff and with the
consent" of Lenine and Trotzky they
are turned over to -+he Germans TO he
destroyed. Why? Because they arc
conclusive proof that on June 9, 1914
the German government was prepar-
ing for war several weeks before the
assassination of the Austrian arch
duke, which was made the pretext for
the war.
One circular is an order from the
German general staff, dated June =,
1914, informing "all industrial con-
Germs in Germany to open the sealed
envelopes containing their industrial
mobilization plans and registered
FORMS so that they mightbe prepared
for the war for which the excuse had
not yet been found.
The second circular is an order from
the German general staff Of the high
sea feet, dated November %. 1914, call
. ing for the mobilization Of AL de-
structive agents and observers" in the
United States and Canada for the pur-
pose Of preventing the sailing Of ships